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Enter the chilling and captivating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta before Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the mystery to life onscreen.
“The new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling… and a warning……there WILL be BLOOD.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces a bold, brilliant killer from her past—and soon realizes she may be his next target—in this “nerve-jangling game of cat and mouse” (People).
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again.
She and longtime FBI and police colleagues Benton Wesley and Captain Pete Marino fly to the eerie early-morning scene, where they immediately recognize Gault’s grizzly handiwork. But no one seems to know his bald female victim, whose naked body has been propped up against a frozen fountain. It makes no sense that she apparently disrobed in the bitter cold without a struggle and walked barefoot over snow to her death.
While Scarpetta sorts through the strange forensic evidence, Gault kills again. But the prey he ultimately seeks is Scarpetta, for it becomes increasingly apparent that he is as focused on her as she is on him. It may be possible that he kills to impress her, and that he’s trying to get at her through her young niece, Lucy, who is the brains behind CAIN, the worldwide FBI computer network.
Through what proves to be Scarpetta’s most frightening chase, she can almost sense the evil, electric presence of her nemesis. But when she draws close, he slips back into the darkness, waiting for the time when they at last meet. . . .
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Sympathischer Charakter, doch der alte Krimi-Charme fesselt mich nicht ganz ! ❌
„Die Tote ohne Namen“ von Patricia Cornwell konnte mich leider nicht überzeugen, da ich mich nicht wirklich in die Geschichte hineinfinden konnte. Der Schreibstil ist flüssig und gut zu lesen, doch die Handlung hat mich nicht abholen können. Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich noch nicht viele ältere Bücher gelesen habe oder dass der Plot für mich persönlich nicht greifbar wurde. Die Protagonistin wirkt dennoch sympathisch und bleibt im Gedächtnis. Insgesamt solide geschrieben, aber weder Spannung noch Thematik haben mich überzeugt.
This was a really good book but it bothered me the whole time how awful Marino is. I know the time this book is set wasn't known for progression towards gay rights or maybe treating Black people decently?????? And I know he's not a real person but people like him do exist in the world today and so that really made me very uninterested in this book, even though the story of Gault was very intriguing. I'm not sure I've ever liked Marino less than in this book.
Description
Enter the chilling and captivating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta before Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the mystery to life onscreen.
“The new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling… and a warning……there WILL be BLOOD.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces a bold, brilliant killer from her past—and soon realizes she may be his next target—in this “nerve-jangling game of cat and mouse” (People).
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again.
She and longtime FBI and police colleagues Benton Wesley and Captain Pete Marino fly to the eerie early-morning scene, where they immediately recognize Gault’s grizzly handiwork. But no one seems to know his bald female victim, whose naked body has been propped up against a frozen fountain. It makes no sense that she apparently disrobed in the bitter cold without a struggle and walked barefoot over snow to her death.
While Scarpetta sorts through the strange forensic evidence, Gault kills again. But the prey he ultimately seeks is Scarpetta, for it becomes increasingly apparent that he is as focused on her as she is on him. It may be possible that he kills to impress her, and that he’s trying to get at her through her young niece, Lucy, who is the brains behind CAIN, the worldwide FBI computer network.
Through what proves to be Scarpetta’s most frightening chase, she can almost sense the evil, electric presence of her nemesis. But when she draws close, he slips back into the darkness, waiting for the time when they at last meet. . . .
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Sympathischer Charakter, doch der alte Krimi-Charme fesselt mich nicht ganz ! ❌
„Die Tote ohne Namen“ von Patricia Cornwell konnte mich leider nicht überzeugen, da ich mich nicht wirklich in die Geschichte hineinfinden konnte. Der Schreibstil ist flüssig und gut zu lesen, doch die Handlung hat mich nicht abholen können. Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich noch nicht viele ältere Bücher gelesen habe oder dass der Plot für mich persönlich nicht greifbar wurde. Die Protagonistin wirkt dennoch sympathisch und bleibt im Gedächtnis. Insgesamt solide geschrieben, aber weder Spannung noch Thematik haben mich überzeugt.
This was a really good book but it bothered me the whole time how awful Marino is. I know the time this book is set wasn't known for progression towards gay rights or maybe treating Black people decently?????? And I know he's not a real person but people like him do exist in the world today and so that really made me very uninterested in this book, even though the story of Gault was very intriguing. I'm not sure I've ever liked Marino less than in this book.