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Kay Scarpetta ist noch traumatisiert von ihrem letzten Fall und dem schrecklichen Tod ihres Lebensgefahrten Benton Wesley, als seltsame Vorgange in ihrem Buro sie in die Wirklichkeit zuruckholen. Jemand hat ihre E-Mail manipuliert und versucht, Scarpetta aus dem Amt zu mobben. Kaum hat die oberste Gerichtsmedizinerin von Virginia begonnen, die Faden wieder in die Hand zu nehmen, fordert ein Toter im Hafen von Richmond ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit. Die Spur zeigt nach Frankreich. Kurz darauf passiert ein zweiter Mord, und Scarpetta und ihr langjahriger Kollege Marino werden von hochster Stelle nach Paris beordert. Hier soll in der Leichenhalle der Schlussel zur Identitat des Morders liegen. Je naher Scarpetta dem Zentrum des Bosen kommt, desto mehr spurt sie, dass kein anderer als sie selbst in seinem Visier steht ...

Une éminente paléontologue disparaît d’un site de fouilles renfermant des ossements de dinosaures au fin fond du Canada. Un message macabre parvient à Kay Scarpetta, lui laissant la détestable impres

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked in the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, she realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out ...

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwellthe worlds #1 bestselling crime writeronce again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out.Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace. Driven by inner forces, Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fieldings death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.And she is the only one who can stop it.

From the world's number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts it's a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. At a glance there is no sign of what killed Gail Shipton, but she's covered with a fine dust that under ultraviolet light fluoresces brilliantly in three vivid colors, what Scarpetta calls a mineral fingerprint. Clearly the body has been posed with chilling premeditation that is symbolic and meant to shock, and Scarpetta has reason to worry that the person responsible is the Capital Murderer, whose most recent sexual homicides have terrorized Washington, D.C. Stunningly, Scarpetta will discover that her FBI profiler husband, Benton Wesley, is convinced that certain people in the government, including his boss, don't want the killer caught. In "Dust," Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a "spectacle killer." The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels. With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise--and to thrill.

Wenn Morderinnen zu Opfern werden ...Eine ratselhafte Mordserie versetzt die Frauen im Hochsicherheitstrakt von Savannah in Angst und Schrecken. Mehrere verurteilte Morderinnen sterben dort auf hochst qualvolle Weise. Ist jemandem die Todesstrafe noch nicht grausam genug? Oder geht es darum, einen ganz personlichen Rachefeldzug zu verschleiern? Die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln, und auch Dr. Kay Scarpetta, eigentlich wegen einer personlichen Recherche in Savannah, ist zunachst ratlos. Derweil feilt der Tater schon an der nachsten Stufe eines diabolischen Plans ...

After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC. As she pieces together the fragments of evidence, Scarpetta discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, drawing herself and her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organised crime, and shocking corruption at the highest level. Dust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today.

Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security she needs when she discovers that Anna has been sub- poenaed to appear before a Grand Jury which is investigating Scarpetta for murder. Kay knows she is being framed and she also knows she can trust no-one. Meanwhile it appears that Chandonne killed a woman in New York before his murderous spree in Virginia, but when Scarpetta looks more closely into that case with the NY prosectuor Jaime Berger, proof of his guilt is far from certain - in fact she begins to believe that he may not be the perpetrator of any of the crimes he is accused of. As she follows the forensic trail to the real killer she gradually realises that someone has been spinning a web for years with the aim of entrapping her. Who is it, and why are they so desperate to be rid of her?

Ein überaus heikler und dubioser Fall, der Win Garano da übertragen wird. Seine Chefin, die Bezirksstaatsanwältin von Massachusetts, zitiert ihn dafür extra von einem Lehrgang nach Cambridge bei Boston. Der Ermittler soll den brutalen, ungeklärten Mord an einer alten Frau mit modernster DNA-Analyse neu aufrollen. Die Staatsanwältin erhofft sich von der spektakulären Aufklärung Rückenwind für ihren Wahlkampf um das Gouverneursamt. Seltsam nur, dass sie Garano nicht einmal die Polizeiakte des grausamen Mords zur Verfügung stellen kann. Noch viel seltsamer ist die mysteriöse Drohung, die Garano am selben Abend erhält. Und als er seine Chefin zur Rede stellen will, kommt er gerade noch rechtzeitig, um ihr das Leben zu retten ...12»Mit Win Garano hat Patricia Cornwell einen mindestens ebenso sympathischen Ermittler wie Kay Scarpetta geschaffen, auf dessen nächsten Fall man sich schon freuen darf.«Literaturtest01Patricia Cornwell, geboren 1956 in Miami, arbeitete als Gerichtsreporterin und Computerspezialistin in der forensischen Medizin, bevor sie mit ihren Thrillern um Kay Scarpetta internationale Erfolge feierte und mit hohen literarischen Auszeichnungen bedacht wurde. Die Autorin lebt derzeit in New York und Florida.01Andrea Fischer, 1969 geboren, lebt seit 1989 in Düsseldorf und übersetzt aus dem britischen und amerikanischen Englisch u.a. Stephen Kind, Dennis Lehane, Peter Robinson.

Blessé, terrorisé, Oscar Bane exige d''être admis dans le service psychiatrique de l''hôpital de Bellevue. Il prétend avoir échappé au meurtrier de sa petite amie, et ne se laissera examiner que par

Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on a psychiatric prison ward. The patient has specifically asked for her, and when he begins to talk, his story turns out to be one of most bizarre she has ever heard. Cornwell is the author of fifteen Scarpetta novels, four non-Scarpettas, and PORTRAIT OF A KILLER.

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. Twenty years after creating Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has written her most extraordinary novel yet.

La fiscal de distrito Monique Lamont tiene un trabajo especial para el investigador de Homicidios, Win Garano. En 1962, una joven invidente británica fue asesinada y Lamont pretende ganar notoriedad demostrando que esta fue la primera victima del Estrangulador de Boston. Casualmente en la zona donde ocurrio el suceso se encuentra la sede de El Frente, una asociacion promovida por algunas agencias policiales con el objetivo de ganar independencia respecto de la policia estatal (en contra de los intereses de la fiscal). Pronto empezaran a filtrarse informaciones comprometedoras...

The second book featuring Winston Garano. Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology, and into partnership with senior officers at London's New Scotland Yard. And as Garano unearths deadly secrets from the past, his hard-nosed boss Monique Lamont is putting both their lives in jeopardy with her lust for power and success. With past and present colliding, the tension mounts with every page...