It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic 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 broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk.
Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...
| ISBN: | 9780751538762 |
| Publication date: | 27th May 2010 |
| Author: | Patricia Cornwell |
| Publisher: | Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 533 pages |
| Series: | The Scarpetta Novels |
| Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The Scarpetta Factor features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Fiction
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The Scarpetta Factor was written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
The Scarpetta Factor has 533 pages
Yes it is part of The Scarpetta Novels series
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