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The new Kay Scarpetta novel and Cornwell will not let you down.

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, médecin légiste expert, l'unique personne en qui il ait confiance. A la demande du procureur, Jaimie Berger, Kay se rend a New York avec son époux, Benton, et sa nièce, Lucy. Une chose est sûre : une femme a été torturée et tuée, et d'autres morts violentes sont a craindre. Très vite, une vérité s'impose a Kay : le tueur sait précisément où se trouve sa proie, ce qu'elle fait et, pire encore, il est au courant des progrès de l'enquête. Kay Scarpetta doit affronter l'incarnation du mal...

Kay Scarpetta kehrt nach Richmond, Virginia, zurück. Fünf Jahre, nachdem sie dort als Gerichtsmedizinerin entlassen wurde. Doch die Begegnung mit ihrem alten Leben steht unter keinem guten Stern. Ihr Nachfolger bittet um Mithilfe bei einem mysteriösen Fall: Ein vierzehnjähriges Mädchen ist ohne erkennbare Todesursache gestorben. Als Scarpetta die Leiche obduziert, entdeckt sie alarmierende Spuren und eine Fährte, die schließlich in ihre eigene Vergangenheit führt.01Patricia 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.

La inspectora Judy Hammer se traslada a Richmond (Virginia) con el objetivo de reorganizar al fuerza policial de esta localidad castigada por la delincuencia. Recibida con recelo por sus nuevos colegas, Hanner recurre a sus amigos Virginia West y Andy Brazil para cumplir su misión e intentar descifrar la presunta relación entre la profanación de una estatua de Jefferson Davis y el brutal asesinato de una anciana.

The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from Americaas #1 bestselling crime writer. When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of "At Risk," the result was electrifying: a"At Risk" is Cornwellas finest novel. It works in every way possiblea fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prosea ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch"); aAbsolutely the best. Hereas hoping weall see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwellas creative pen since . . . well, Kay Scarpettaa ("The Denver Post"). "At Risk" featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a notinconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garanoas grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril. And in "The Front," peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, sheas sending him to Watertown to acome up with a drama, a and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they donat have to be so dependent on the stateamuch to Lamontas anger. He senses a much deeper agenda hereabut he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, heall find that Lamontas task, andthe places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrorsaeverywhere he turns, heas not quite sure if what heas seeing is true. aFalsehoods rule, a warns his grandmother. And they can also kill. This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind "The Front,"

Deseosa de empezar una nueva vida libre de los lastres del pasado, Kay Scarpetta decide cerrar su etapa como forense en Richmond y elige Florida como destino donde alcanzar la tan anhelada tranquilidad. Sin embargo, hay alguien que no está dispuesto a que la doctora rehaga su vida: Jean- Baptiste Chandonme, el psicopata que la aterrorizó tiempo atrás, la reclama ahora desde el corredor de la muerte. La mosca de la muerte es una novela intensa cuyos protagonistas se ven irremediablemente abocados a enfrentase con fantasmas del pasado: Scarpetta con Chandonme, Pete Marino con un hombre al que todosdaban por muerto y que se oculta en Boston.

The latest in the bestselling series featuring fiction's original pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta. The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. La última entrega de la exitosa serie que protagoniza la original patóloga de ficción, la Dra. Kay Scarpetta. El 'libro de los muertos' es el registro de la morgue, el fichero en el que todos los casos son anotados a mano. Para Kay Scarpetta, sin embargo, está a punto de adquirir un nuevo significado. Recobrada de su dura batalla contra un psicópata de Florida, Scarpetta decide que es el momento para un cambio de ritmo. Decide mudarse a la histórica ciudad de Charleston, en Carolina del Sur, y abrir allí una clínica privada única dedicada a la práctica de la patología forense, una en la que ella y sus colegas pueden ofrecer servicios especializados en investigación en escenarios del crimen y en autopsias a comunidades que normalmente carecen de acesso a la tecnología más moderna y a una investigación de homicidios competente en sus áreas locales.

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...

The second book featuring Winston Garano

Scarpetta regresa a la clínica forense de Richmond para participar en la investigación de Gilly, que fue hallada muerta en su cama sin aparentes signos de violencia; sin embargo, el hecho de que la autopsia se este posponiendo mas de lo previsto y que el FBI este interesado en conocer los resultados de la misma despierta el recelo de la forense. Wesley recomienda cautela e insinua que el caso podria ser una tapadera, confirmando asi las sospechas de Scarpetta.

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.

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the murders and other violent deaths begin. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names - and the pen may be poised to write her own. The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthral.

«En lo que a ciencia forense se refiere, Cornwell es intocable.»The New York Times Book ReviewLa semana antes de Navidad, el desastre económico hace que la doctoraKayScarpetta -pese a su apretada age

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...

"Bestseller Cornwell's compelling 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves the chief medical examiner in a case that's both far-reaching in its national security implications and deeply personal. The story begins at the real Port Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, where Scarpetta is assisting in developing techniques for virtual autopsies, then shifts back to her recently adopted home at Boston's Cambridge Forensic Center (CFC). A young man's mysterious death becomes even stranger after full-body scans reveal destruction so extensive it's as if a bomb went off inside his body. Scarpetta and husband Benton Wesley-along with her niece, Lucy Farinelli, and ex-cop turned CFC investigator Pete Marino-discover links not only to a government project with the ability to cause mass casualties but also to another grisly case currently under investigation. As Scarpetta's military past rears its head, the emotional damage the investigation of the cases is bound to wreak on Cornwell's steadfast heroine will leave readers eager for the next installment. Long-time fans will welcome the return after a decade to a first-person narration with direct access to Scarpetta's thoughts.