The Scarpetta Factor (Signed)
Inbunden bok. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. First edition, signed by the author uppl. 2009. 495 sidor.
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The Scarpetta Factor (Signed)
Patricia Cornwell
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Hardcover book with dust jacket. The book is new, unread and in perfect condition, but the edges are slightly toned as usual.
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 2009.
First edition, signed by the author
ISBN 9780399156397
Protected in a clear plastic wrapper.
It is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic 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 broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley’s.
When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
Format ca: 24x16x5 cm. 494 pages.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780399156397
- Titel
- The Scarpetta Factor
- Författare
- Patricia Cornwell
- Förlag
- Penguin USA
- Utgivningsår
- 2009
- Omfång
- 495 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Inbunden
- Mått
- 164 x 244 mm Ryggbredd 46 mm
- Vikt
- 852 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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 Citys 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 Wesleys. 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 Scarpettas 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 millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
Scarpettas CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called The Scarpetta Factor. Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a special factor, a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.
The Scarpetta Factor, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger.
