false 2833172 14 Leaving 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. 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? 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. 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. 2859278 7 10 2008 Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16) total:2670|5:448|4:882|3:912|2:319|1:110| 2670 9249 4275 600 3 8 false false Thu Dec 04 14:11:50 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 09:43:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 19:53:44 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 18:48:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 18:22:01 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:34:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 06:10:14 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 06:12:42 -0800 2009 4 3 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 10:37:39 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 10:45:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Dec 11 12:43:27 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 23:57:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:48:22 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:54:54 -0800 2009
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I cannot stand the third person writing in the last third/half of the series…it is disgusting. It took so much away for me to not be inside Scarpetta’s mind. I ha...more...]]> 1 1 false true Sat Dec 27 10:49:09 -0800 2008 Thu May 28 10:56:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 24 17:11:12 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 17:19:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 22:17:33 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 09:00:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Aug 30 21:55:43 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 22:22:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 19 10:04:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 10:38:21 -0700 2009
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I will say that the killer, while not obvious at first, had something about them that led you to believe they were up to something; althoug...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 19:14:53 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 17:14:07 -0800 2009
The main characters of the series each seem to be dealing with a painful event that happened at the end of the last book and have had to learn to trust and love e...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2833172