The Bone Bed So Far...

For English 12, we had to pick out a book for us to read, so I chose the Bone Bed by Patricia Cornwell.  I have not finished reading this book yet, I am only on page 90, but I will explain what I have read so far.  The main character is Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist, and the story is told from her point of view.  Kay Scarpetta runs the CFC, or the Cambridge Forensic Center.  The book starts off inside Kay Scarpetta's office at approximately 5:00 in the morning on a Monday.  She was sitting at her desk drinking coffee, looking at a email she received Sunday night.  The email contains a video showing someone driving a boat on a river, heading west.  The video ends by showing a severed ear.  It is at this point that Kay Scarpetta's niece Lucy shows up inside the office, and they talk about the email that Kay Scarpetta received, and who might have sent it.  They talk for awhile, and then Pete Marino, Kay Scarpetta's head investigator at the CFC, appears inside her office, and Lucy leaves.  Pete Marino is on the phone with a marine rescuer, who talks to Kay Scarpetta and tells her that they have discovered a leatherback, an endangered turtle, in a bay in Boston, and there is a body attached to the line the turtle got caught up in.  Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino goes to the crime scene on a coast guard boat.  When they arrive at the scene, Kay Scarpetta is observing the leatherback, and collecting all the necessary evidence.  This is as far as I have gotten in the book, but I hope this has been a good description of what I have read so far.