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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."

Discover the dazzling fascinating (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it s being sabotaged from within and someone wants her dead."

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

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.

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.

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...

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 '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.

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 tenth in the best-selling series of crime novels featuring the medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta.

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...

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

A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website on www.patricia-cornwell.com