The Scarpetta Factor

Kay Scarpetta #17

Patricia Cornwell

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Леко захабен външен вид, неизползвана книга. Голям формат.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Little, Brown
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 2009 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 494
Корици:: Твърди
Поредици и библиотеки:: Scarpetta Series
Категория:: Криминални романи
Тегло (гр.):: 816
Ширина (мм):: 160
Височина (мм):: 240
Дебелина (мм):: 42
ISBN:: 9780316733168

Scarpetta Series, 17. * Заглавието на български език: Проектът "Калигула", изд. Бард, София, 2011 г. ** 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 seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on 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 Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - 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 millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past... The Scarpetta Factor is a thrilling, compulsively readable tour-de-force by 'the world's number 1 thriller writer' (The Times) that sees Scarpetta and her team battling some of their most twisted adversaries yet... *** About the Author Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, in 1990 while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature. Postmortem would go on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize - the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. To date, Cornwell’s books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. She’s authored twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers. Patricia’s novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and fellow investigator Pete Marino. Celebrating 25 years, these characters have grown into an international phenomenon, winning Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development. Fox 2000 bought the rights to Kay Scarpetta. Working with producer Liz Friedman, Marvel’s Jessica Jones and fellow Marvel EP and Twilight Saga scribe Melissa Rosenberg to develop the film and find Scarpetta a home on the big screen. After earning her degree in English from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer. Cornwell received widespread attention and praise for her series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. From the Charlotte Observer, Cornwell moved to a job with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia - a post she would later bestow upon the fictional Kay Scarpetta. When not writing from her Boston home, Patricia tirelessly researches cutting-edge forensic technologies to include in her work. Her interests span outside the literary: Patricia co-founded of the Conservation Scientist Chair at the Harvard University Art Museums. She appears as a forensic consultant on CNN and serves as a member of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital’s National Council, where she advocates for psychiatric research. She’s helped fund the ICU at Cornell’s Animal Hospital, the scientific study of a Confederate submarine, the archaeological excavation of Jamestown, and a variety of law enforcement charities. Patricia is also committed to funding scholarships and literacy programs. Her advice to aspiring authors: "Start writing. And don’t take no for an answer."

Ключови думи: книги на английски език, английски книги, съвременни романи, криминални романи, Патриша Корнуел, Д-р Кей Скарпета