Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell, 0425230163, Hard cover and Dust Jacket

Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell, 0425230163, Hard cover and Dust Jacket. Twenty years ago, Patricia Cornwell, America's number-one-bestselling crime writer, created Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, orig inating the modern-day forensic thriller and a character who would change the face of contemporary suspense. Now she brings us the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. "In Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has a character as strong as any in popular fiction." -The Wall Street Journal Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient on Belle-vue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk-and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most orarre she has ever heard.