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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.

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 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.

No.1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta-a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself. It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with her FBI profiler husband Benton Wesley when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny it's as if they're newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with shocking precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one heard or saw a thing. It's as if God did it. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the middle of a nightmarish pursuit of a serial sniper who seems to leave no evidence except fragments of copper. The shots are so perfect, they cause instant death and seem impossible, and the death scenes aren't crime scenes because the killer was never within hundreds of yards of the victims. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and there is no pattern that might indicate where the Copperhead will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then into the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta dives a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover and analyze. There she must face an unthinkable truth that points in the direction of her techno genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta's own flesh and blood.

Scarpetta ist als Zeugin im Prozess gegen einen Ol-Tycoon geladen, der seine spurlos verschwundene Ehefrau ermordet haben soll. Wenige Stunden zuvor wurde eine mumifizierte Frauenleiche aus dem Bostoner Hafen geborgen. ist sie die Vermisste? Fieberhaft beginnt die beruhmte Rechtsmedizinerin mit der Untersuchung, wahrend die Anwaltin des Angeklagten alles daran setzt, Scarpettas Reputation zu untergraben. Daneben machen Scarpetta noch ganz andere Probleme zu schaffen: Chefermittler Pete Marino gerat unter Mordverdacht, und Ehemann Benton Wesley scheint sich von ihr abzuwenden. Steuert sie beruflich und privat auf eine Katastrophe zu?

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. In Trace, Scarpetta t ravels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appoin ted Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that n othing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of de molition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; h er old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't r eveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Marino dislikes instantly, medd les with the case. Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and L ucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attemp ted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evid ence-traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to m ake the dead speak-and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than e ven she can bear.

Since Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner treats her with disdain despite the obvious fact that he is in desperate need of her expertise. But professional as ever, she re-examines the evidence and proves the girl was murdered. She also finds trace evidence which matches that found on an accident victim and at the scene where one of Lucy's operatives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the probability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta ist einem Serienmörder auf der Spur, der es auf junge Liebespaare abgesehen hat. In den letzten zwei Jahren wurden vier junge Pärchen in abgelegenen Wäldern tot aufgefunden. Als ein fünftes Paar ermordet in einem Waldstück entdeckt wird und sich die Tote als Tochter einer prominenten Staatsanwältin erweist, werden Scarpettas Nachforschungen von höchster Stelle behindert...09"Am letzten Augusttag, einem Samstag, begann ich schon vor Morgengrauen zu arbeiten. Ich bekam nicht mit, wie die Sonne den Tau vom Gras leckte und der Himmel strahlend blau wurde. Den ganzen Vormittag kam Leiche nach Leiche auf die Stahltische, und der Raum besaß keine Fenster: Das Labour-Day-Wochenende hatte in Richmond mit einer Anhäufung von Verkehrsunfällen und Schießereien begonnen.Es war zwei Uhr nachmittags, als ich endlich in mein Haus im West End zurückkam. Schon an der Tür hörte ich Bertha, die jeden Samstag bei mir sauber machte, in der Küche herumwirtschaften - und das Telefon begann zu klingeln. Bei ihrer Einstellung hatte ich sie angewiesen, Anrufe zu ignorieren. »Hallo«, begrüßte ich sie. »Ich bin nicht da.«Bertha hörte auf mit Bodenwischen. »Es hat vor 'ner Minute schon mal geklingelt«, berichtete sie. »Und ein paar Minuten davor auch schon. Jedes Mal derselbe Mann.«»Ich bin nicht zu Hause«, wiederholte ich.»Wie Sie meinen, Dr. Kay.« Der Schrubber kam wieder09in Bewegung.Ich öffnete die Kühlschranktür und versuchte, die körperlose Nachricht des Anrufbeantworters, die in die sonnendurchflutete Küche drang, zu überhören. Wo war der Geflügelsalat? Auf den Signalton folgte eine vertraute männliche Stimme: »Doc? Hier spricht Marino ...«Hilf, Himmel!, dachte ich, griff mir den Geflügelsalat und schloss die Kühlschranktür mit einem Hüftschwung. Detective Pete Marino vom Morddezernat Richmond war seit Mitternacht im Dienst gewesen, und ich hatte ihn vorhin kurz gesehen, als er bei mir im Obduktionsraum vorbeischaute, wo ich gerade die Kugeln aus einem seiner Fälle entfernte. Eigentlich hatte er den verbleibenden Rest des

Kay Scarpetta viaja a Berlín para ofrecer unas conferencias en la Facultad de Medicina del Trinity College, pero el propósito real de la forense es investigar una serie de homicidios ocurridos en Irlanda diez años atras. Estos presentan algunas similitudes con el paso del Carnicero, que ha infundido el panico en los habitantes de Virginia, y Scarpetta intenta establecer hasta que punto los asesinatos cometidos a ambos lados del Atlantico presentan caracteristicas comunes.

Kay es víctima del juego sucio de un desconocido que pretende arruinar su carrera. Los restos del cuerpo de un hombre hallados en un contenedor de un barco procedente de Bélgica son sorprendentes: los rayos X revelan cicatrices profundas y en su ropa aparecen unos pelos extraños, semejantes a los de un animal. Una serie de coincidencias con las pruebas obtenidas en Francia, en el examen de otros cuerpos, la guiara hasta el cuartel general de la Interpol en Lyon.

Le docteur Kay Scarpetta s’est installée en Floride. Elle a quitté la médecine légale institutionnelle pour l’expertise privée. Pourtant, elle va devoir revenir dans cette ville de Richmond qui lui a

Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crímenes actúa siempre los sábados, de madrugada, y deja muy pocas pistas. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del departamento de Medicina Legal de la ciudad, recibe una llamada a las 2.33, supone que algo grave ha sucedido: hay una cuarta victima. Kay Scarpetta recurrira a los ultimos avances en medicina legal y tendra que verselas con aquellos que quieren sabotear su trabajo, y es que no a todo el mundo le gusta ver a una mujer en el puesto que ella ocupa. Una magnifica novela, llena de suspense, en la que hasta las descripciones cientificas atrapan al lector. The Times

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 fifth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series.

El Departamento de Policía de Charlotte (Virginia) se enfrenta a una serie de asesinatos en los que la víctima es siempre un hombre de negocios forastero, cuyo cadáver aparece dentro de un coche alquilado, en un barrio de las afueras de la ciudad. Las agentes Judy Hammer y Virginia West, con la ayuda del periodista Andy Bazil, deberan resolver este intrincado caso.

Trying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marion race against time to find a killer after the fingerprints of a recently executed murderer tu

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.