false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255577530m/6495359.jpg 6495359 13 It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected 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 telecast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley’s. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package – possibly a bomb – waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionaires with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.<BR><BR> Scarpetta’s CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called <I>The Scarpetta Factor</I>. Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a “special factor,” a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.<BR><BR> <I>The Scarpetta Factor</I>, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger.<BR><BR> 6686808 book 20 10 2009 The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17) total:181|5:35|4:59|3:53|2:25|1:9| 181 629 663 44 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:39:34 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:44:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:02:03 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 11:08:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 10:13:56 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:18:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:54:51 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:13:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:12:03 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:40:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:18:13 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:22:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:28:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 20:28:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 19:51:33 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 19:53:37 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:36:42 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:36:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 28 22:53:34 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 13:33:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 05:30:17 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 05:35:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:53:35 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:54:50 -0800 2009
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