Scarpetta Patricia Cornwell | ISBN : 1-4104-0835-3

Scarpetta

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Publication Date: 02 December, 2008

ISBN: 9781410408358

Pages: 655

Subjects: Mystery, Medical

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-1-4104-0835-8 Trade Cloth, 978-0-399-15516-1 Trade Paper, 978-0-425-23016-9 Trade Paper, 978-1-59413-348-0 Audio Recording Downloadable, 978-1-4159-6033-2

Description:

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric 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.He says his injuries 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 only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered and that more violent deaths will follow...

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: Publishers Weekly

Review Date: 2008-11-24

At the start of bestseller Cornwell's plodding 16th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after Book of the Dead), 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 Book of the Dead 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. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved