Patricia Cornwell

Trace

Scarpetta (Book 13)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fünf Jahre nachdem sie dort als Gerichtsmedizinerin entlassen wurde, kehrt Kay Scarpetta nach Richmond, Virginia, zurück. Sie soll ihrem Nachfolger helfen, den rätselhaften Tod einer Vierzehnjährigen aufzuklären. Das Mädchen ist scheinbar ohne erkennbare Todesursache gestorben. Als sie eine weitere Leiche in Augenschein nimmt, entdeckt sie vergleichbare Spuren von Knochenstaub auf dem toten Körper. Allem Anschein nach hat der Täter im Krematorium der Gerichtsmedizin gearbeitet ... Five years after being sacked as Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, and she is back with a vengeance. A vengeance not of her own making ...
A stunning exercise in psychology and suspense, accompanied by a dazzling display of detail. "Trace" provides blinding evidence of Patricia Cornwell at her best. Bringing Kay Scarpetta back to the once-familiar territory of ther morgue and her department, she plunges her heroine - and her legion of followers - into an environment thas bas become familiar, fascinating and irresistible to readers across the globe.

Produktdetails

• Kay Scarpetta Vol.13
• Verlag: Berkley Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 111mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780425250310
• ISBN-10: 0425250318
• Artikelnr.: 34559473

Autorenporträt

Patricia Cornwell is one of the world’s major internationally bestselling authors, translated into over thirty-five languages in more than 120 countries. She is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Sciences 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 Chief Medical Examiner, New York City; and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital’s National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. In 2008, Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards’ Book Direct Crime Thriller of the Year—the first American to win this prestigious award. In 2011, she was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. Her most recent bestsellers include Port Mortuary, The Scarpetta Factor, The Front, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed. Her earlier works include Postmortem—the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year—and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain’s Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.

? Debra Gingrich