El Factor Scarpetta = The Scarpetta Factor
La semana antes de Navidad, el desastre economico hace que la doctora Kay Scarpetta -pese a su apretada agenda y su trabajo como analista forense para la CNN- ofrezca sus servicios gratuitos a la Oficina del Jefe de Medicina Forense de Nueva York. Su mayor presencia publica parece precipitar una...
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La semana antes de Navidad, el desastre economico hace que la doctora Kay Scarpetta -pese a su apretada agenda y su trabajo como analista forense para la CNN- ofrezca sus servicios gratuitos a la Oficina del Jefe de Medicina Forense de Nueva York. Su mayor presencia publica parece precipitar una serie de acontecimientos turbadores e inesperados. En television, se le pregunta en directo por la sonada desaparicion de Hannah Starr, a la que se da por muerta. Poco despues, en el mismo programa, recibe la sorprendente llamada de una antigua paciente psiquiatrica de su marido, Benton Wesley. Cuando despues del programa regresa a casa, encuentra un siniestro paquete, posiblemente una bomba, en la conserjeria. Pronto las aparentes amenazas a la vida de Scarpetta se entrelazan en una trama surrealista que incluye a un actor famoso acusado de un delito sexual inimaginable y la desaparicion de la hermosa millonaria con quien Lucy, sobrina de Scarpetta, quiza haya compartido un pasado secreto. / It is the week before Christmas. 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 her husband, Benton Wesley. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package, 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 millionaire with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788498726305 (8498726301)
Publish date: June 30th 2012
Publisher: Ediciones B
Pages no: 484
Edition language: Spanish
Series: Kay Scarpetta 5 (#17)
I haven't read a Scarpetta novel for a while, and when I saw this one in our office's Little Library, I decided to grab it.This time, Kay is helping out in the New York Office of the Chief Medical Examiner pro bono, as well as consulting on CNN (I seem to have missed a book or two, so I don't know w...
Tre stelline e mezzo..... meglio degli ultimi libri su Kay Scarpetta ma non come i primi....
Audiobook. Okay where's the Scarpetta I fell in love with a few years ago? Is this even the same author? It seemed so full of anger and bitterness seething through all of the characters. I miss the medical forensics from Kay doing autopsies. This seemed much more into psychology and technology. I go...
Il finale mi è sembrato decisamente tirato li, ha lasciato molte cose in sospeso. Non merita più di tre stelline.
I am quickly losing interest in this series, but somehow I still find myself borrowing these books from the library *See Port Mortuary*. This book was very hard to follow and too long, IMO. I believe it is time for a whole new cast of characters. Get rid of Benton. He has become a non factor even th...