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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...

Un apasionante caso de la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta. La forense Kay Sarpette investiga una serie de asesinatos cometidos, en apariencia, por una misma persona. La investigación la llevará a rastrer en Florida y Boston, donde su compañero sentimental, Benton Wesley, participa en un estudio científica sobre asesinos en serie. Ambos se servirán de sus respectivas indagaciones para intentar solucionar el complejo caso.

Oscar Bane exige son admission dans le service psychiatrique de l'hôpital Bellevue. Il redoute pour sa vie et prétend que ses blessures lui ont été infligées au cours d'un meurtre, qu'il nie avoir commis. Il ne se laissera examiner que par le médecin légiste expert Kay Scarpetta. Celle-ci se rend à New York et commence à enquêter mais le tueur anticipe...

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 legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay ScarpettaScarpetta is back!Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. She and her husband Benton are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon, in a post-pandemic world that's been torn apart by civil and political unrest.Just weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to investigate a woman's body which has been shockingly displayed on railroad tracks. As Scarpetta follows the trail, it leads unnervingly close to her own neighbourhood...At the same time, two scientists are found dead in a top-secret laboratory in outer space. Scarpetta is summoned to the White House Situation Room and tasked with finding out what happened. But even as she's working the first crime scene in space from the ground, an apparent serial killer strikes again. And this time, Scarpetta could be in greater danger than ever before...

The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay ScarpettaKay Scarpetta is back, and this time she's right in the path of danger...World-renowned forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton, a psychologist with the US Secret Service, have returned to Virginia. They are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that's been torn by civil and political unrest.Just weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to a railway track where a woman's body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine. But the trail of clues will lead Scarpetta back to her own neighbourhood.At the same time, a catastrophe occurs in a top-secret lab in outer space, endangering the scientists aboard.

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À la veille d’une mission spatiale top-secret, la capitaine Calli Chase détecte une alarme dans le tunnel d’un des centres de recherche de la NASA. Spécialiste en mécanique quantique et enquêtrice en

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Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? Its clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesnt know whom she can tellnot her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood moguls daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpettas entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obviousbut strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly thats the message they send when they raid Lucys estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.In the latest novel in her bestselling series featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell will captivate readers with the shocking twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail that she is famous for, proving yet again why shes the worlds #1 bestselling crime writer.

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.On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner Pete Marino respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost super human force.Even before Scarpettas headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Center, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpettas FBI agent husband Benton Wesley receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case or be interested? With breathtaking speed it becomes apparently that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a week.Stunningly, even her brilliant tech savvy niece Lucy cant trace whoever it is or how this person could have access to intimate information few outside the family would have.When a second death hundreds of miles south, shocking Scarpetta to her core, it becomes apparent she and those close her are confronted with something far bigger and more dangerous than theyd ever imagined. Then analysis of a mysterious residue recovered from a wound is identified as a material that doesnt exist on earth.In this latest in the bestselling series featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell shows us once again why she is the worlds number one bestselling crime writer, mistress of the shocking turns, delicious thrills, and state-of-the-art forensic details that all fans of suspense have come to love.

Auf einem Campusgelande bei Boston findet man die kunstvoll drapierte Leiche einer Studentin. Vieles deutet darauf hin, dass sie das Opfer eines Ritualmords wurde. Nur Gerichtsmedizinerin Kay Scarpetta ist skeptisch. Hat hier jemand ganz bewusst falsche Spuren gelegt, versucht, die Ermittler auf eine falsche Fahrte zu locken? Um das herauszufinden, begibt sich Scarpetta in eine neue, ihr bisher unbekannte Welt. Eine Welt, in der das Wissen um die modernsten Uberwachungstechnologien ebenso viel wert zu sein scheint wie ein angemessener Vorrat an den neuesten Designerdrogen. Doch Scarpetta lasst sich nicht blenden. Und macht eine erschreckende Entdeckung ...