The Scarpetta Factor
of Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
Series: Kay Scarpetta #17
Description
It is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York Cityâs 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 Wesleyâs.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 Scarpettaâs 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 pastâŠ.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 494 pages
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication Date October 20th 2009
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780399156397
- Edition Not informed
- Category Mystery & Thriller
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