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Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Erstveröffentlichung
1995
Band (Reihe)
6 (Kay Scarpetta)
Typ
Buch
Genre
Belletristik: Kriminalroman
Auflage
Titel
Sprache
Englisch (Amerikanisch)
Verlag
BCA
Jahr
1995
Seitenanzahl
340
ISBN
CN 1014
EAN
0000000010146
Ausgabe
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
Unbekannt
Inhalt/Klappentext
Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI.
The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.
But this time Gault isn't satisfied with indiscriminate murder. As Scarpetta scrapes together the meager clues he leaves behind she realizes his actions are becoming more focused taunting almost; letting her know he's still out there, still killing. The sabotage of the FBl's database computer - a computer programmed and run by Scarpetta's niece Lucy - no longer seems coincidental, and with other insidious encroachments into her private life Scarpetta faces a terrifying truth: that this time, the price of failure could be personal.
Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.
The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.
But this time Gault isn't satisfied with indiscriminate murder. As Scarpetta scrapes together the meager clues he leaves behind she realizes his actions are becoming more focused taunting almost; letting her know he's still out there, still killing. The sabotage of the FBl's database computer - a computer programmed and run by Scarpetta's niece Lucy - no longer seems coincidental, and with other insidious encroachments into her private life Scarpetta faces a terrifying truth: that this time, the price of failure could be personal.
Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.