Scarpetta

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...

About the author

Patricia 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.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Cornwell
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.05.2009
• EAN: 9780425228586
• ISBN: 978-0-425-22858-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Berkley Books; Kay Scarpetta; Kay Scarpetta
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage