{"product_id":"0425230163","title":"Scarpetta","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeaving 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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? \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PATRICIA CORNWELL s most recent bestsellers include \u003ci\u003eBook of the Dead, The Front,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed\u003c\/i\u003e. Her earlier works include \u003ci\u003ePostmortem\u003c\/i\u003e -- the only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d Aventure in a single year -- and \u003ci\u003eCruel and Unusual,\u003c\/i\u003e which won Britain s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.\u003c\/p\u003e\nPublishers Weekly\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the start of bestseller Cornwell's plodding 16th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after \u003ci\u003eBook of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e), the forensic pathologist-who recently relocated to Belmont, Mass., with her forensic psychologist husband-is called to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for reasons that don't become clear until she gets there. Oscar Bane, who voluntarily committed himself to Bellevue while denying he brutally murdered his girlfriend, refuses to speak to anyone except the high-profile Scarpetta. Bane, Scarpetta discovers, is obsessed with her. Meanwhile, someone masquerading as Scarpetta is lurking in cyberspace and supplying an online gossip site with dirty secrets about the doctor. For help on the murder case, Scarpetta turns to her computer whiz niece and a macho former colleague whose shocking actions in \u003ci\u003eBook of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e severely damaged his relationship with Scarpetta. With a plot full of holes and frustrating red herrings, this entry falls short of the high standard set by earlier volumes in this iconic series. \u003ci\u003e(Dec.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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