Kay Scarpetta versucht den Mord an ihrem ehemaligen Vorgesetzten, Jack Fielding, aufzuklären und gerät dabei auf die Spur einer terroristischen Verschwörung, die nur sie zu stoppen vermag.

Zusatztext The iconic forensic consultant is as brittle as ever! and the body count is as high as Cornwell fans have come to expect. Cornwell hasn't sold 100 million novels for no good reason Informationen zum Autor Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem , was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors. Klappentext The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell - soon to be an original series on Prime Video 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . The next book in the Scarpetta series is The Bone Bed . And the brand-new instalment, Sharp Force , is available now! DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION 'One of the best crime writers writing today ' Guardian ' Devilishly clever ' Sunday Times ' The top gun in this field ' Daily Telegraph ' Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns ' Mirror ' The Agatha Christie of the DNA age ' Express Vorwort The nineteenth Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller of over 75 million books worldwide Zusammenfassung The nineteenth Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller of over 75 million books worldwide...

The iconic forensic consultant is as brittle as ever, and the body count is as high as Cornwell fans have come to expect. Cornwell hasn't sold 100 million novels for no good reason

Vorwort
The nineteenth Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller of over 75 million books worldwide

Autorentext

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.

Klappentext

The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell - soon to be an original series on Prime Video
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer.

Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings.

As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . .

*The next book in the Scarpetta series is The Bone Bed. And the brand-new instalment, Sharp Force*, is available now!

DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION'One of thebest crime writers writing today*' Guardian*

'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times

'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph

'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror

'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

Zusammenfassung
The nineteenth Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller of over 75 million books worldwide