Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell

Kay is summoned to New York because a guy in Bellevue will only talk to her and let her examine him. She goes, of course, and soon realizes she’s hearing a fake story from Oscar Bane and wonders about his self-inflicted wounds. He’s accused of killing his girlfriend. Kay can’t tell anyone, not even Benton, what she learned from Oscar, Lucy is called to figure out what’s what with the deceased’s laptops and who the emails are from, and the deceased’s neighbor is found dead. Obviously, the question is whodunit…which I figured out.

Benton and Kay are now married and she’s left Charleston to live with him in McLean VA, but they also work in NYC; Pete Marino disappeared from Kay’s life after an incident in Charleston and just happens to be back on the job at NYPD; and Lucy just happens to have opened a new business in the area. Just amazing how everyone managed to get back together again….oh, please spare me all these ridiculous situations. Lots of technical stuff could have been left out to make this 400 pages or less and it still would have been just an OK book.