Depraved Heart

Resumen del libro

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-third engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy.

But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn.

She doesn't know whom she can tell - not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy. In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves.

The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious - but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they raid Lucy's estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Patricia Cornwellx{0026}lt;/B (Florida, 1956), directora de Ciencia Forense Aplicada en la National Forensic Academy, ha recibido múltiples galardones en reconocimiento a su obra literaria; destacan los premios Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, Macavity, el francés Prix du Roman d Aventure, el galardón británico Gold Dagger y el Galaxy British Book Award.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 1999, la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, protagonista de la mayoría de sus novelas, recibió el premio Sherlock al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P La obra de Cornwell ha sido traducida a más de treinta y dos idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P