“on the back steps, there's an ashtray full of cigarette butts," lucy says. "i don’t think her dna's going to be a problem. or her footprints, fingerprints. the problem's him. he knows what he's doing. these days, everybody's an expert." "no," scarpetta says. "they just think they are.”
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