Preowned/ good condition. Flesh and Blood: A Kay Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell. Copyright in 2014 by Harper/ Collins. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages 369. It's sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday. She's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI-profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. Is this a kids' game? And if so, whey are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny the could be newly minted? Her cell phone rings, and Detective Pete Marion tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher was shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet no one heard or saw a thing. There are no rips, tears or fold over of the pages. Normal wear on the dust jacket.