Her publishers knew the million-dollar advances were a steal. Then, in 1997, came Hornet's Nest. Suddenly Scarpetta was off stage, and we were in a story about Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West and a young newspaper-reporter-turning-cop, Andy Brazil. Two years later, ...
In her quest to make me feel dried up and duly contrite, she’d poked a hornet’s nest. Her mouth set itself into a pale, hard line. She wheeled herself over to the medical trash can, peeled off her gloves and threw them in. Sitting there in her sagging panty hose and black orthop...
The bald faced hornet creates a grey egg-shaped nest which reaches a length of 580 millimeters (23 in) with the diameter measuring 360 millimeters (14 in). In the nest there are many suspended combs for larvae. They build nests at a height of about 1.1 to 20 m (3 ft 7 in to 65 ...