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The Scarpetta Factor

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Scarpetta Factor
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patricia Cornwell
SeriesKay Scarpetta
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:544
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 129
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780751538762
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Sphere
Publication Date 27 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer 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....

Author Biography

Patricia Cornwell is the 2008 winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this prestigious award. Postmortem was the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year and Cruel and Unusual won the coveted Gold Dagger Award in 1993.

Reviews

Cornwell has never written better - Evening Standard The Scarpetta Factor is a novel that has clearly engaged Cornwell in the same fashion as her vintage work - Independent The Cornwell phenomenon goes on - Daily Mail