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Number-one New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the 23rd engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer-genius niece, Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.

Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is under suspicion and criminal investigation. And the nightmare perpetuated on Scarpetta's doorstep continues as she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past.

Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. Then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found with a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear, with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie.

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 precipitates 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.

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its heat to the humans who stalk the malls, and they all give Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensics specialist, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best: persuading the dead to speak to her.

Per il detective Winston Garano quella chiamata è una vera sorpresa. Sta frequentando un corso di specializzazione alla National Forensic Academy quando il procuratore distrettuale, l'affascinante Monique Lamont, lo convoca d'urgenza per uno strano incarico. Deve indagare su un omicidio avvenuto vent'anni prima nel Tennessee di cui non è mai stato scoperto il colpevole. Tutto ruota intorno a un nuovo progetto investigativo, "A rischio", che utilizza le tecniche più recenti di trattamento del DNA a scopi di indagine criminale.

An ihrem Geburtstag findet Kay Scarpettas auf ihrer Mailbox eine kryptische Nachricht von einem gewissen "Copperhead", und kurz darauf entdeckt sie an ihrer Gartenmauer sieben blank polierte Münzen. Ein alberner Scherz? Bevor sie darüber nachdenken kann, klingelt das Telefon und Detective Pete Marino berichtet ihr, dass ganz in ihrer Nähe ein Mann erschossen wurde. Auf dem blank polierten Projektil, so stellt man später fest, ist die Zahl 3 eingraviert. Es ist bereits der dritte Mord, der nach diesem Muster begangen wurde - und die Opfer stammten alle aus Scarpettas Umfeld. Sieben Münzen, drei Morde: bleiben noch vier.

Es ist nicht alles so wie es scheint. Pass auf wem du vertraust! Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia, wird in einen besonders aufsehenerregenden Fall verwickelt: Die erfolgreiche Schriftstellerin Beryl Madison ist bestialisch ermordet worden. Und obwohl sie sich schon seit längerem bedroht fühlte, hat sie ihren Mörder anscheinend freiwillig ins Haus gelassen. Scarpettas einziger Anhaltspunkt ist ein verschwundenes Manuskript, an dem Beryl lange gearbeitet hat. Sein brisanter Inhalt scheint kostbarer zu sein als ein Menschenleben.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost 20 years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her beloved niece that raise dangerous legal implications, leaving Scarpetta confused, worried, and unable to turn to Lucy, her FBI husband Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner Pete Marino.

Kay Scarpetta auf der Suche nach einem Serienmörder, der sie im Visier hat - Kann das gut gehen? Kay Scarpetta ist noch traumatisiert von ihrem letzten Fall und dem schrecklichen Tod ihres Lebensgefährten Benton Wesley, als seltsame Vorgänge in ihrem Büro sie in die Wirklichkeit zurückholen. Jemand hat ihre E-Mail manipuliert und versucht, Scarpetta aus dem Amt zu mobben. Kaum hat die oberste Gerichtsmedizinerin von Virginia begonnen, die Fäden wieder in die Hand zu nehmen, fordert ein Toter im Hafen von Richmond ihre ganze Aufmerksamkeit.

Mentre Ronnie Joe Waddell sta per salire sulla sedia elettrica, la dottoressa Kay Scarpetta, capo dell'ufficio di medicina legale della Virginia, è intenta ai preparativi necessari per eseguirne l'autopsia. Ma la morte dell'uomo non è il solo evento di cui Kay debba occuparsi in quella fredda notte di dicembre. Poche ore prima è stato ritrovato un bambino col corpo orribilmente mutilato: un episodio di violenza sessuale che mostra inquietanti affinità con l'assassinio per cui Waddell è stato condannato.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.

It's a sunny morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday. She's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. Is this a kids' game? And if so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet no one has heard or seen a thing.

È la settimana prima di Natale e Kay Scarpetta sta prestando servizio volontario presso l'Istituto di medicina legale di New York, dove le viene chiesto di esaminare il cadavere di una ventiseienne, Toni Darien, ritrovato poco prima dell'alba a Central Park. La causa del decesso sembra banale ma, quando si tratta di stabilire l'ora precisa della morte, l'ipotesi di Kay pare incompatibile con gli elementi emersi dalle indagini. Inevitabilmente l'omicidio viene messo in relazione con la recente sparizione di Hannah Starr, bellissima multimilionaria svanita nel nulla.

Port Mortuary - letteralmente il porto dei morti - è il luogo in cui vengono smistati i cadaveri dei caduti in guerra della base dell'Aeronautica militare di Dover. È qui che Kay Scarpetta sta seguendo un corso di addestramento sulle autopsie virtuali quando, in una fredda sera di febbraio, viene richiamata in tutta fretta dalla nipote Lucy e dall'investigatore Pete Marino al CFC di Boston, il nuovo centro di medicina forense civile e militare da lei diretto.

Wenn Neugier tödlich endet. Ausgerechnet an Silvester wird Kay Scarpetta zu einem besonders traurigen Fall gerufen. Sie kannte den Toten, Ted Eddings, einen Reporter. Jetzt treibt seine Leiche im trüben Wasser eines Schiffsfriedhofs. Was brachte den jungen Mann dazu, zwischen ausrangierten U-Booten und Frachtern zu tauchen? Vorerst findet Scarpetta keine Antwort auf diese Frage – doch als sich kurz darauf seltsame Vorfälle in ihrem Umfeld ereignen, ahnt sie zumindest, dass Teds Tod nur der Anfang des Unheils war.

Ein alt bekannter Serienmörder schlägt zurück und sucht gierig sein nächstes Opfer... Stille ist eingekehrt im nächtlichen New York, der Central Park ruht unter einer dicken Schneeschicht – eine Szenerie, wie sie idyllischer kaum sein könnte. Wäre da nicht die Frauenleiche, die in eben diesem Park an einem eingefrorenen Brunnen lehnt. Die Handschrift der Tat ist unverkennbar: Serienmörder Temple Brooks Gault hat wieder zugeschlagen. Er wird noch weiter morden, doch bald wird klar, dass er es eigentlich nur auf ein Opfer abgesehen hat: Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta.

Due fidanzati, scomparsi da diversi mesi, vengono ritrovati cadaveri. Il caso si prospetta subito difficile, le due vittime sono ormai ridotte a corpi scheletriti e il loro esame non può fornire molti dettagli. Il capo dell'ufficio di medicina legale di Richmond, Kay Scarpetta, non è però una persona che si arrende facilmente, tanto più che la morte dei due presenta molte rassomiglianze con quella di altre coppie assassinate sempre nella stessa zona. Le indagini di Kay saranno però ostacolate da imprevedibili difficoltà.

Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures.