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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.

Dopo l'ultimo devastante caso che l'ha vista in azione in Florida, Kay Scarpetta si trasferisce a Charleston, nel South Carolina, dove apre uno studio di patologia forense con l'irrinunciabile aiuto della nipote Lucy e del fidato Pete Marino. Proprio quando sembra prendere avvio una tranquilla esistenza nella routine della provincia americana, Kay è chiamata a Roma per collaborare alle indagini sull'orrenda fine di una giovane statunitense campionessa di tennis. Un caso che sembra collegarsi a quello di un bambino morto proprio a Charleston in seguito alle privazioni e ai maltrattamenti. E a tutto ciò non sembra essere estranea una vecchia nemica di Kay, la psichiatra Marilyn Self. Cosa lega questi casi? Perché l'assassino scrive alla dottoressa Self prima di uccidere le sue vittime e di accanirsi con inaudita ferocia sui loro corpi? Ancora una volta Kay Scarpetta dovrà mettersi sulle tracce del colpevole, interpretandone i messaggi prima che sia troppo tardi.

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."

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...

Kay Scarpetta s’apprête à célébrer son anniversaire à Miami en compagnie de son mari, Benton Wesley, quand elle remarque sept pennies alignés à son insu sur le mur derrière leur maison. À cet inst

Segundo título protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuación de una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos.La Biblioteca Cornwell presenta la segunda novela de su serie emblematica protagonizada por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.Alguien acecha a la escritora Beryl Madison. Alguien que la espia, que observa todos sus movimientos y que le hace amenazantes y obscenas llamadas telefonicas.Y una noche, inexplicablemente,Beryl deja entrar en su casa a su asesino.Asi comienza para la doctora Kay Scarpetta la investigacion de un delito tan tortuoso como extraño. ¿Por que abrio Beryl la puerta? Scarpetta comienza a atar los cabos de las intrincadas pruebas forenses#Y mientras reconstruye los pasos de la joven escritora, ira acercandose, poco a poco y sin darse cuenta, a un asesino que acecha en la sombra#

"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.

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

Unthriller protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta.Un brutal asesino siembra el pánico en Richmond, Virginia, al amparo de la noche. Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crimenes deja muy pocas pistas y actua siempre los sabados de madrugada. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del Departamento de Medicina Legal, recibe una llamada a las dos y media de la mañana, supone que algo grave ha sucedido: hay una cuarta victima.Scarpetta recurrira a los ultimos avances cientificos para desenmascarar al predador, y tendra que verselas con aquellos que quieren sabotear su trabajo y arruinar su reputacion.Post Mortem fue el primer titulo protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta que publico Patricia Cornwell. Por esta novela recibio multiples premios literarios y con ella comenzo una de las series de novela criminal mas exitosa de todos los tiempos.** Premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.

En la tranquila ciudad de Charlotte, en el estado sureño de Virginia, se ha producido una serie de asesinatos de características similares: las víctimas son hombres de negocios que no residen en la ciudad y cuyos cadáveres aparecen en coches de alquiler en un barrio de las afueras. Judy Hammer, jefa del Departamento de Policía, y Virginia West, su ayudante, intentarán resolver el caso con la colaboración de Andy Brazil, un intrépido periodista que trabaja como agente voluntario. Patricia Cornwell, directora de Ciencia Forense Aplicada en la National Forensic Academy, ha recibido múltiples galardones en reconocimiento a su obra literaria. En 1999, la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, protagonista de la mayoría de sus novelas, recibió el premio Sherlock al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.