From Potter's Field - Brossura

Cornwell, Patricia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0751530468 ISBN 13: 9780751530469

Casa editrice: Sphere, 2000

Riassunto

Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work. Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.

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Su questo libro

Recensione:

Cornwell spins a relentless and complex tale of the hunter and hunted... Vividly compulsive, this warrants a new award; winner of the golden scalpel (MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Cornwell is on magnificent form (EVENING STANDARD)

Grippingly tense (THE TIMES)

One of the most interesting and singular bodies of work in popular fiction. (SUNDAY TIMES)

Descrizione del libro:

Christmas, New York and a naked body is discovered in Central Park ... The sixth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sphere
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0751530468
• ISBN 13: 9780751530469
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416