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Chap 1-7

Chap 1: In chapter one we learn about the main characters, their jobs and the case. The talk about their location at the FBI Academy in Quanitco, Virginia.

2: This chapter is mainly about the relationship between Scarpeta and her niece Lucy. She gotes to meet her at her job/ workplace, VICAP. lucy and scarpeta get upset with each other and they end up meeting lucy's friend. Marino's personality is touched on in this chapter as well.

3: The Death of Ferguson is discovered. Also the team travels to black mountain to investigate this murder, and Mote goes to hospital, due to heart complications and stress.

4: at the black mountain case they find flesh, which they remember chunks of skin missing from the little girl. the team gets reassigned and Scarpeta wants to go to body farm.

5: They break into the basement to look for clues but to enter basement they break through door and wesley breaks his hand. this venture leads to the discussion between and other relations between scarpeta and wesley.

6: Go into Emily case some more. Looking over pictures and things and notice marks on her butt and try to go "exhume" her body. Mother needs to be pressent and thats when they learn about Denesa family.

7: Allowed to look at body. Goes back to crime scene and and finds fireballs, emily's favorite candy. Scarpeta gets lost and has to find her way to where marino is waiting to give her a ride. Fling suspected between denesa and marino.

8: Kay and Marino get to dig up her body (allowed by mother in the last chapter) they notice the inscription/ epitaph Reporters start trying to get info, overwhelming them... marino scares them away

9: Autospy on emily (but first whats in the coffin) -kitten in bag barried with her... (socks: name of cat) --> cat was killed by human notice in autopsy that emily bit her tounge (seizures) they then go to the mothers house to get explanation for cat. she talks about phone calls that happened around the time of ems death. Marinos emotions keep him from doing his job... (especially when the mother starts crying. Kay wants to talk to the boy emily liked. kay decides emily didnt take the short cut... something is wrong with her niece lucy 10: Scarpeta returns to academy, finds out the finger print found at Ferguson's belongs to Denesa. And that the flesh in the freezer is O positve which can be linked to emily who is also that type. problems with lucy: broke into the files and lost her FBI future she then moves in with Scarpeta, when they talk about why shes kicked out Lucy claims that she innocent