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Unthriller protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta.Un brutal asesino siembra el pánico en Richmond, Virginia, al amparo de la noche. Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crimenes deja muy pocas pistas y actua siempre los sabados de madrugada. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del Departamento de Medicina Legal, recibe una llamada a las dos y media de la mañana, supone que algo grave ha sucedido: hay una cuarta victima.Scarpetta recurrira a los ultimos avances cientificos para desenmascarar al predador, y tendra que verselas con aquellos que quieren sabotear su trabajo y arruinar su reputacion.Post Mortem fue el primer titulo protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta que publico Patricia Cornwell. Por esta novela recibio multiples premios literarios y con ella comenzo una de las series de novela criminal mas exitosa de todos los tiempos.** Premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.

Segundo título protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuación de una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos.La Biblioteca Cornwell presenta la segunda novela de su serie emblematica protagonizada por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.Alguien acecha a la escritora Beryl Madison. Alguien que la espia, que observa todos sus movimientos y que le hace amenazantes y obscenas llamadas telefonicas.Y una noche, inexplicablemente,Beryl deja entrar en su casa a su asesino.Asi comienza para la doctora Kay Scarpetta la investigacion de un delito tan tortuoso como extraño. ¿Por que abrio Beryl la puerta? Scarpetta comienza a atar los cabos de las intrincadas pruebas forenses#Y mientras reconstruye los pasos de la joven escritora, ira acercandose, poco a poco y sin darse cuenta, a un asesino que acecha en la sombra#

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...

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. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder … that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow…

The latest in the internationally acclaimed Dr Kay Scarpetta series It is the week before Christmas A tanking economy has prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta _ despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN _ to offer her services pro bono to New York City´s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events...

It is the week before Christmas A tanking economy has prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta _ despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN _ to offer her services pro bono to New York City´s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead...

Abbandonato il suo lavoro di patologa forense a Charleston, in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta viene convocata dal dipartimento di polizia di New York per esaminare Oscar Bane, un paziente dell'ospedale psichiatrico di Bellevue accusato di omicidio. Costui ha espressamente fatto il suo nome e non intende parlare con nessun altro. Davanti a Kay sostiene di non essere l'autore del delitto e le racconta una storia incredibile, secondo la quale le ferite che ha sul corpo sarebbero state provocate durante l'uccisione di Terri Bridges, la sua ragazza, da qualcuno che lo ha spiato, seguito, studiato e che infine ha aggredito lui e Terri. Oscar potrebbe essere uno psicopatico e mentire, ma le torture e le mutilazioni che Terri ha subito non sono false. Così, assieme allo psicologo forense Benton, da poco suo marito, e alla nipote Lucy, Kay comincia un'indagine che attraversa le strade della citta e gli angoli più oscuri di Internet, per scoprire che l'omicida potrebbe essere in realta molto più vicino di quanto si creda...

Oscar Bane exige son admission dans le service psychiatrique de l'hôpital Bellevue. Il redoute pour sa vie et prétend que ses blessures lui ont été infligées au cours d'un meurtre, qu'il nie avoir commis. Il ne se laissera examiner que par le médecin légiste expert Kay Scarpetta. Celle-ci se rend à New York et commence à enquêter mais le tueur anticipe...

En la tranquila ciudad de Charlotte, en el estado sureño de Virginia, se ha producido una serie de asesinatos de características similares: las víctimas son hombres de negocios que no residen en la ciudad y cuyos cadáveres aparecen en coches de alquiler en un barrio de las afueras. Judy Hammer, jefa del Departamento de Policía, y Virginia West, su ayudante, intentarán resolver el caso con la colaboración de Andy Brazil, un intrépido periodista que trabaja como agente voluntario. Patricia Cornwell, directora de Ciencia Forense Aplicada en la National Forensic Academy, ha recibido múltiples galardones en reconocimiento a su obra literaria. En 1999, la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, protagonista de la mayoría de sus novelas, recibió el premio Sherlock al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this 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 worlds 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 shes 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 its suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears shes been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts its 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 shes 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, dont 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.

Regresar a lugares que uno ha dejado atrás no siempre es fácil y la doctora Kay Scarpetta está a punto de constatarlo. Instalada desde hace cinco años en Florida, la prestigiosa patóloga forense vuelve a Richmond, la ciudad donde crecio profesionalmente, para investigar la extraña muerte de una adolescente. Apenas hay indicios que contribuyan a avanzar en la investigacion, pero esa no es la unica dificultad con la que va a tropezar. En su antiguo centro de trabajo las cosas parecen haber cambiado mucho: la autopsia se esta posponiendo mas de lo necesario, las trabas se multiplican, practicamente nadie se presta a echar una mano Todo apunta a que detras de este caso se esconde algo mas que una simple muerte y parece que la doctora Scarpetta tendra que investigar para aclarar todo el misterio.

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.

Auf einem Campusgelande bei Boston findet man die kunstvoll drapierte Leiche einer Studentin. Vieles deutet darauf hin, dass sie das Opfer eines Ritualmords wurde. Nur Gerichtsmedizinerin Kay Scarpetta ist skeptisch. Hat hier jemand ganz bewusst falsche Spuren gelegt, versucht, die Ermittler auf eine falsche Fahrte zu locken? Um das herauszufinden, begibt sich Scarpetta in eine neue, ihr bisher unbekannte Welt. Eine Welt, in der das Wissen um die modernsten Uberwachungstechnologien ebenso viel wert zu sein scheint wie ein angemessener Vorrat an den neuesten Designerdrogen. Doch Scarpetta lasst sich nicht blenden. Und macht eine erschreckende Entdeckung ...

o. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-third engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. You are being watched The death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter has the police convinced it's an accident. But Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows better. It's almost as if someone is leaving evidence only she would spot. They are always three steps ahead Scarpetta is sidetracked when she receives a video clip revealing disturbing secrets about her niece, Lucy. But before she can react, the FBI raid Lucy's estate. Time is running out Scarpetta suspects one person is behind it all: the murder, the videos, the FBI. She needs to stop them before it's too late - and everyone she loves is destroyed.

El periodista Andy Brazil accede a colaborar voluntariamente con el Departamento de Policía de Charlotte en la investigación de uno de los casos más controvertidos que puede recordar. La agente con quien trabajara es la subdirectora Virginia West, una mujer inteligente y resolutiva cuyo caracter choca frontalmente con el de su nuevo compañero. Las diferencias entre ambos solo desapareceran al centrarse en su objetivo comun: atrapar a un escurridizo asesino que ya ha cargado cuatro victimas a su macabra cuenta particular. El modus operandi del criminal no deja lugar a dudas: se enfrentan a uno de los mayores dementes que han andado sueltos por la ciudad.