The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder. . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta?. The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered and more violent deaths will follow.
He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town.