Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta)
by Patricia Cornwell
Book Summary Information
Author: Patricia CornwellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-02
ISBN: 0399155163
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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- ISBN13: 9780399155161
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta)
Book Review: The Mystery Is . . .
Summary: 2 Stars
. . . why I'm still listening to this. My wife and I popped this into the CD player on a long car trip. Around the middle of disk 5 we looked at each other and said the same thing:
Nothing has happened in this book.
Only people talking.
I assume that it was not the interesting portion of the book, or the parts where people are doing something other than talking or thinking about talking, that was abridged out of the CD edition.
The relationship talk is endless, frequent, and tedious. And so far, pointless.
Two stars instead of one because, as I said, I'm still listening.
Summary of Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta)
From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk-and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.
The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered-and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?
In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city-an odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.
Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can provide. Once again, she proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
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