of your kay scarpetta series. that is right.ight to see all of them as a form of therapy? you could say that. hopefully they don't read like therapy and they don't read like some neurotic drivel, which my early ones did, trust me, the ones that didn't get published. i work through a lot of things in this, and i have kay scarpetta do the same. her biggest underlying motivation is that she became an expert at death at a young age because she watched her father dying. i became an expert at loss and the loss caused me to fear death. if you are little and you feel abandoned and alone and you are not sure who is taking care of you, you worry you won't survive, and i am lucky i did. you know, i really, really am. so i return to my own crime scene through a very poetic way of dealing with the life of kay scarpetta and the cases she works. she deals with the loss of her father by always being this expert in death, but no matter how much she picks it apart and puts it it back together again, he will never be alive again and neither will a

of your kay scarpetta series. that is right.read like some neurotic drivel, which my early ones did, trust me, the ones that didn't get published. i work through a lot of things in this, and i have kay scarpetta do the same. her biggest underlying motivation is that she became an expert at death at a young age because she watched her father dying. i became an expert at loss and the loss caused me to fear death. if you are little and you feel abandoned and alone and you are not sure who is taking care of you, you worry you won't survive, and i am lucky i did. you know, i really, really am. so i return to my own crime scene through a very poetic way of dealing with the life of kay scarpetta and the cases she works. she deals with the loss of her father by always being this expert in death, but no matter how much she picks it apart and puts it it back together again, he will never be alive again and neither will any of her patients. how do you do that as human being? that is what is fun about these books, and interesting for me. ho

if you don't have the spaghetti right, then you don't have scarpetta i'm assuming homemade spaing ityy day. >> what's in the sauce. >> for us, it starts off very simple. it is plum tomatoes cooked, seeded, we infuse with olive oil, garlic, little red pepper flake and basil. >> you make it sound so easy. that's not easy thing. >> then this is another thing people have been talking about, your yellow tail happen tieser. >> yes, very simple, we really enjoy, we think it is fresh, really speaks well to the fish, and has simple ingredients that, you know, sing well well to go. pepper oil, salted, pickled red onion. >> and we have to have dessert, right? >> no way. >> talk to us about this most amazing thing. first of all, that is a pretty fancy whatever it is. what is it? >> there is our coconut pancotta, set with gel continue, coconut milk, milk, heavy cream. and sweetened up just a touch on top that far we have a guava soup, carmelized pine al em, coconut sorbet. >> of these three things what's your favorite? is so hard to choose. >> pick a child. >> i mean, i can't ever stop eating spag