Flesh and Blood is the twenty second book in the Kay Scarpetta series. I mentioned in an earlier review that this series goes up and down like a rollercoaster, and we are certainly in a downward motion with these last few books. In this particular book, Kay and Benton are about to head off to Miami for a nice beach vacation until Marino calls to ruin that for them. There has been a sniper type of murder just a short jaunt from her home. Kay also discovers seven pennies of the same year perched on the wall behind her home, and she worries over what that means. She eventually carries on to Florida to dive a shipwreck, finding clues that only she (imagine that) can solve. Marino is back up to his arguing, petulant ways, which is nothing less than to be expected at this stage. Lucy is annoying as always, and manages to find herself implicated in this latest fiasco. Benton is evasive and silent as ever. He can never just use his words and always have to play cat and mouse about everything. He probably would behave that way about which brand of toothpaste to pick up. I am just so annoyed with all of these characters.