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Scarpetta : Scarpetta (Book 16) by Cornwell, Patricia D is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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View our feature on Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta. From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new 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 talkand 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 murderedand 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 connectio
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- Author
- Cornwell, Patricia D
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781440654503
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Medical, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (160 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Scarpetta : Scarpetta (Book 16) (2009)
- 2009-Scarpetta (2008)
- Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16) (2008)
- Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (The Scarpetta Series) (2009)
- Kay Scarpetta 16 - Scarpetta (2008)
- Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (The Scarpetta Series) (2010)
- Scarpetta (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) (2008)
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