Találatok: Patrica Cornwell

Snap The sound of a bullet hitting flesh Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in pursuit of a sniper who leaves no trace except copper fragments. The impossible shots cause instant death. Snap The target is closer than you think The victims have nothing in common, and there is no indication where the killer will strike next. Snap You won't hear it - you're already dead Scarpetta tracks the sniper across the country to the .Florida coast. Here she uncovers shocking evidence implicating her niece, Lucy - Scarpetta's very own flesh and blood.Kiadás éve: 2015Oldalak száma: 450 oldalKötésmód: ragasztottISBN: 9780008104306EAN: 9780008104306

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. With her hallmark qualities of deft characterisation, perfect research and tense story-telling, Patricia Cornwell has created a novel which entertains, intrigues and satisfies. Kiadás éve: 2007 Oldalak száma: 234 oldal Kötésmód: karton ISBN: 9780751538717 EAN: 2013300295364

Patricia Cornwell, a New York Times több, mint 100 millió példányban eladott bestsellerszerzője páratlanul izgalmas és lélegzetelállító orvosi-lélektani thrillerrel tér vissza. Valaki figyel... Egy nagyhatalmú és gazdag hollywoodi mogul lányának halálát a rendőrség balesetnek ítéli, de dr. Kay Scarpetta halottkém, törvényszéki orvostan szakértő más véleményen van. Úgy érzi, mintha valaki olyan nyomokat hagyna, amiket csak ő vesz észre. És mindig három lépéssel előtte járnak... Scarpetta figyelmét eltereli, amikor egy videoklipet küldenek a telefonjára, ami nyugtalanító titkokat tár fel az unokahúgáról, Lucyról. Mielőtt azonban akcióba lendülhetne, az FBI razziát tart Lucy birtokán. Fogytán az idő... Scarpetta úgy gyanítja, csak egyvalaki állhat a gyilkosság, a videók és az FBI razzia hátterében. Le kell állítania, mielőtt túl késő, és elpusztítanak mindenkit, akit szeret... "A bűnügyi-pszichológiai thriller úttörője" - BBC "A DNS korának Agatha Christie-je" - Express Az egyik legjobb élő krimiíró" - Guardian Eredeti név: Depraved heart Kiadás éve: 2018 Oldalak száma: 500 oldal Kötésmód: karton ISBN: 9786155760914 EAN: 9786155760914

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out ...Kiadás éve: 2011Oldalak száma: 354 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780425240809EAN: 9780425240809

Awards: BCA Crime Thriller of the Year 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-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly meant to run her out of town. And that's even before the murders and other violent deaths begin. A young man from a well-known family jumps off a water tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones that face 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 enthrall.Kiadás éve: 2007Oldalak száma: 470 oldalKötésmód: fűzveISBN: 9780751540741EAN: 9780751540741

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino and FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.Kiadás éve: 2013Oldalak száma: 506 oldalKötésmód: ragasztottISBN: 9780751548174EAN: 9780751548174

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. Moments later during the same telecast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionaires with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.Kiadás éve: 2010Oldalak száma: 534 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780751543872EAN: 9780751543872