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Scarpetta : Scarpetta (Book 16) by Patricia Daniels Cornwell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered—and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?In the

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Author
Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780399155161
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Medical, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.72 / 5 (160 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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