Entertaining fifteenth book in the Scarpetta Series. This book begins with the brutal murder of a teenage American tennis player who was a guest on the Tv show of Dr. Laura Self that Benton Wesley and Kay Scarpetta consult with for the police in Italy. Scarpetta is now living in Charleston, South Carolina. In Charleston the body of a little boy who was abused to death is found in a desolate marsh. While Marino is having a hard time and drinking and abusing testosterone cream and spending time with a sleazy woman named Shandy. The killer is calling himself The Sandman because he puts sand in his victims' eyes and glues them shut.