The Scarpetta factor / Patricia Cornwell.

By: Cornwell, Patricia DanielsMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Scarpetta series ; 17.Kay Scarpetta ; 17Publication details: London : Little, Brown Book Group, 2009Description: 494 p. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316733168 (hbk.); 0316733164 (hbk)Subject(s): Scarpetta, Kay, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Scarpetta, Kay, (Fictitious character) | Detective and mystery stories | Women pathologists -- Fiction | Women pathologists -- Fiction | Women pathologists | Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Medical examiners (Law) -- Fiction | Forensic pathologists -- Fiction | Women physicians -- Fiction | Mystery -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | Mystery fictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Detective and mystery stories | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction). | Mystery fiction | Mystery fiction | Mystery fiction.DDC classification: 813.54 LOC classification: PN56
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Kay has offered 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.
Summary: The latest in the internationally acclaimed Dr Kay Scarpetta series.
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Kay has offered 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.

The latest in the internationally acclaimed Dr Kay Scarpetta series.

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