Patricia Cornwell

Segundo t tulo protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuaci n de una de las series de novela criminal m s exitosas de todos los tiempos. La Biblioteca Cornwell presenta la segunda novela de su serie emblem tica 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 esp a, que observa todos sus movimientos y que le hace amenazantes y obscenas llamadas telef nicas. Y una noche, inexplicablemente, Beryl deja entrar en su casa a su asesino. As comienza para la doctora Kay Scarpetta la investigaci n de un delito tan tortuoso como extra o. Por qu abri Beryl la puerta? Scarpetta comienza a atar los cabos de las intrincadas pruebas forenses# Y mientras reconstruye los pasos de la joven escritora, ir acerc ndose, poco a poco y sin darse cuenta, a un asesino que acecha en la sombra... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The inspiration for the Prime Video series Scarpetta--starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ... Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Una tarde de finales de verano en Cambridge, Massachusetts, la doctora Kay Scarpetta y su compa ero de investigaci n, Pete Marino, responden a una llamada sobre una joven ciclista muerta que parece haber sido atacada con una fuerza casi sobrehumana. Antes de que la sede de Scarpetta haya sido notificada oficialmente sobre el suceso, el agente Marino y Benton Wesley, el marido de la doctora Scarpetta, miembro del FBI, reciben llamadas de alguien supuestamente de la Interpol interes ndose sobre el crimen. Pero no tiene sentido. Por qu la agencia policial internacional conocer a el caso o estar a interesada en l? Pronto se hace evidente que las llamadas podr an ser obra de un ciberacosador an nimo llamado Tailend Charlie, que ha estado enviando a Scarpetta comunicaciones cr pticas con informaciones privadas de su pasado desde hace m s de una semana. Ni siquiera Lucy, su brillante sobrina experta en tecnolog a, puede rastrear c mo esta persona ha podido tener acceso a informaci n tan personal. Cuando una segunda muerte conmociona a la doctora hasta lo m s profundo, se hace evidente que ella y sus seres queridos se enfrentan a algo mucho m s grande y peligroso de lo que jam s hab an imaginado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with another scintillating 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 Scarpetta's headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Center, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta's 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 can't 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 they'd ever imagined. Then analysis of a mysterious residue recovered from a wound is identified as a material that doesn't 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 world's 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.

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THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER'Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the DarkSummoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had a love affair with acclaimed astrophysicist Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . . DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian'Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her' Sunday Times'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror'In a league of her own' Heat

THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLERTwo mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . . Chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this brutal, and why. The next book in the Scarpetta series is Identity Unknown. DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION'A sinister mystery from one of the all-time greats of the genre'SUN'A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest'CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END'An edge-of-the-seat mystery, packed with twists'DAILY MAIL'Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best'M. J. ARLIDGE, author of EYE FOR AN EYE'Cornwell really is in a league of her own'BOOK OF THE WEEK, HEAT'Scarpetta is still queen of the autopsy and Cornwell is still queen of crime fiction'ANDREA MARA, author of NO ONE SAW A THING'Cornwell proves once again why she is a crime writer still at the top of her game'WOMAN'S WEEKLY

Kuolinsyytutkija Kay Scarpetta löytää itsensä murhaoikeudenkäynnin tähtitodistajan paikalta huippusuositussa trillerisarjassa. Kohuoikeudenkäynti aiheuttaa väkivaltaisuuksia Alexandrian kaupungissa, ja annettuaan todistajanlausuntonsa Scarpetta joutuukin suoraan ruumishuoneelle - tuomarin lähisukulainen on murhattu oikeudenkäynnin aikana. Miksi kahden vuoden takainen murha aiheuttaa niin valtavaa kuohuntaa, ja mihin väkivallan aalto oikein päättyy? Tiivistunnelmaisessa trillerissä Kay Scarpetta taistelee aikaa vastaan selvittääkseen kasvottoman pahantekijän henkilöllisyyden. Patricia Cornwellin kirjat ovat koukuttaneet suomalaisia lukijoita jo 30 vuoden ajan.

Kohtuarst Kay Scarpetta on naasnud Virginia osariiki, kus ta kunagi oma kuulsusrikast karjääri alustas. Tema lootused jätkata kohtuarstliku büroo juhtimist sama koha pealt, kus see tal paarikümne aasta eest pooleli jäi, purunevad, kui ta saab eelkäijalt päranduseks üleoleva sekretäri ja hooletusse jäetud büroo, mille endisel juhil on varjata üht-teist valgustkartvat. Scarpetta on töötanud oma uuel ametikohal vaid paar nädalat, kui ta kutsutakse raudteeäärsesse sündmuskohta, kus lebab jõhkralt mõrvatud naine - kõri läbi lõigatud ja käed-jalad laiali nagu lumeinglil. Kui Scarpetta asja lähemalt uurima asub, viivad juhtlõngad häirivalt lähedale tema enda kodule ajaloolises vanalinnas. Samal ajal toimuvad seletamatud sündmused Maa orbiidil tiirlevas ülisalajases katselaboris, mille tõttu paistab ohus olevat vähemalt kahe teadlase elu. Scarpetta kutsutakse Valgesse Majja, kus tal palutakse välja selgitada, mis orbitaaljaamas täpsemalt juhtuda võis. Sellal, kui ta kaugjuhtimise teel uurib kosmoses asuvat võimalikku kuriteopaika, ründab arvatav sarimõrvar aga uuesti. Kay Scarpetta sarja uus romaan köidab lugejaid ootamatute pöörete, närvekõditava põnevuse ja kohtuekspertiisi puutuvate üksikasjadega, millest on saanud Cornwelli kaubamärk. "Lahkamine" on järjekordne näide, miks Patricia Cornwell on üks maailma enimmüüdud krimikirjanikke.

THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE 120-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERTwo mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . . In this thrilling new instalment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this brutal, and why.'A sinister mystery from one of the all-time greats of the genre'SUN'A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Unnatural Death is Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest. The best just got better' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END'An edge-of-the-seat mystery, packed with twists'DAILY MAIL'Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best'M. J. ARLIDGE, author of EYE FOR AN EYE'Cornwell really is in a league of her own'BOOK OF THE WEEK, HEAT'Classic Cornwell with an up-to-the-minute twenty-first-century plot. An intoxicating blend that proves Scarpetta is still queen of the autopsy and Cornwell is still queen of crime fiction' ANDREA MARA, author of NO ONE SAW A THING'Cornwell proves once again why she is a crime writer still at the top of her game'WOMAN'S WEEKLY

From a New York Times bestselling author, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the most terrifying murder case she's ever come across. In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

From a New York Times bestselling author, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the most terrifying murder case she's ever come across. In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

From a New York Times bestselling author, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the most terrifying murder case she's ever come across. In this thrilling installment of the Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.