Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) Audiobook (Free)

Watch our feature on Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta.

From America’s #1 bestselling criminal offense writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.

Abandoning her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta allows an assignment in New York City, where in fact the NYPD offers 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 about Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Reserve 16) her, so when she actually has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk-and the storyplot he must tell actually is probably one of the most bizarre she’s ever noticed.

The injuries, he says, were sustained throughout a murder . that he did not commit. Is certainly Bane a criminally insane stalker that has set on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid story true, and it is he who’s becoming spied on, implemented and stalked from the actual killer? The thing Scarpetta knows for certain is certainly that a female continues to be tortured and murdered-and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the offences knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a authorities? And what’s the connection between your victims?

In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist spouse, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has formed her very own forensic computer analysis firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city-an odyssey which will take them at once to areas they never knew, and much, much too close to house.

Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and converts, and the type of cutting-edge technology that just she can provide. Once again, she shows her exceptional capability to entertain and enthrall.

Watch a Video