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The Scarpetta Factor (Hardcover)

By: Patricia Cornwell (Author)

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"It's good to sit down with old friends around the holidays, even if one is a trouble magnet. In fact, that's a lot of the allure of Cornwell's best-known character." (top pick)

Publisher's note

From the best-selling author of Scarpetta comes the seventeenth installment in the popular series of thrillers featuring kay Scarpetta.

It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta a despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN a to offer her services pro bono to New York Cityas 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 Wesleyas. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package a possibly a bomb a waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpettaas 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.
Scarpettaas CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called "The Scarpetta Factor." Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a aspecial factor, a a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.
"The Scarpetta Factor," 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.

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Fame and riches are dangerous assets. Thanks to her appearances on CNN--and her nearly perfect record, Dr. Kay Scarpetta's reputation is growing, which is good for her career as a celebrity forensic pathologist. But when she receives a creepy phone call while live on the air and then finds a frighteningly mysterious package waiting at her apartment, Scarpetta starts thinking twice about the offer from CNN for her own TV show called the SCARPETTA FACTOR. But at this point, she's already gotten wrapped up in a case involving some super rich, a sex scandal, and another celebrity. Fans of Patricia Cornwell's long-running and exceedingly popular series will be thrilled to know that all their favorite characters making appearances. This seventeenth addition to the series won't disappoint!

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