Chandonne has been arrested. But Scarpetta's problems are just beginning...

We enter The Last Precinct through the reverberating aftershocks of Black Notice, inconceivably finding Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta an object of suspicion - and criminal investigations. And the nightmare perpetuated on Scarpetta's doorstep continues as she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New Yok City and into the darkest corners of her past.

When a formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case, Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask: where do you go when there's nowhere left?

After reading Black Notice I was keen to read this next instalment. After approximately three years of not picking up a Scarpetta novel it felt like I had reunited with an old friend. I'd forgotten just how good Cornwell could be, and had missed her style immensely. I didn't know that the case continued in The Last Precinct but I'm really glad it does, as the story was excellently written, but lacking finality. This will probably shoot to the top of my 'to read' list very soon.