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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Someone is following you...One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Someone is taunting you...Meanwhile, people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls. Could they be linked to Scarpetta's anonymous cyber stalker, Tailend Charlie? Someone wants to destroy you...A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core. Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn't exist on earth. And it's clear that someone, or something, is coming for her, and is hell-bent on creating chaos...

1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta's conclusions, the threatening messages don't stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa's death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley. She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta's surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can't explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."

Kay Scarpetta, experte en médecine légale, relève des éléments suspects sur la scène de décès d''une cycliste. Son mari, Benton Wesley, agent du FBI, est appelé pour cette même affaire par un prétend

THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE 120 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER Iconic Bold Brilliant Identity Unknown is hauntingly original impossibly clever and devilishly daring Scalpel sharp storytelling trademark twists and characters that feel like family this series is one of the all time greats CHRIS WHITAKER author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the Dark Summoned to an unnerving abandoned theme park to retrieve a body Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career Scarpetta had a love affair with acclaimed astrophysicist Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship The murder scene is bizarre with a crop circle of petals around the body and Giordano s skin is strangely red Scarpetta s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead s secrets but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces and of Giordano himself Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that in her mind is far more evil DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION One

Quando viene chiamata in una zona selvaggia della Virginia settentrionale a esaminare i resti di due campeggiatori, Kay Scarpetta si trova di fronte uno scenario orribile. Le vittime, ricercate dai federali per riciclaggio di denaro e attivita terroristiche, sono state sfregiate con una violenza e un accanimento tali da renderle quasi irriconoscibili. Le altre prove rinvenute sul posto sono ugualmente spaventose e un'impronta enorme, troppo grande per appartenere a un essere umano, getta tutti nello sconcerto. Quando dal passato ritorna poi un pericoloso fantasma, Kay si sentira inerme e in balia di questo antico nemico senza scrupoli che minaccia lei e la sua famiglia, oltre che l'intera nazione. In questo nuovo romanzo di Patricia Cornwell, l'anatomopatologa piu famosa del mondo, Kay Scarpetta, si trova di fronte a una delle scene del crimine piu inquietanti della sua carriera, e deve indagare per scoprire chi puo aver commesso omicidi cosi efferati e perche.