Chaos (Scarpetta Novel) - Hardcover

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410493245 ISBN 13: 9781410493248

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.

Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta s conclusions, the threatening messages don t stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa s death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley.

She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta s surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can t explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief s judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."

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Review:

Praise for Chaos:

‘Slick, fast-paced and brilliant’ Heat

Praise for Patricia Cornwell & the Kay Scarpetta novels:

‘Cutting-edge’ Sun

‘A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller’ BBC

‘America’s most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction’ The Times

‘Devilishly clever’ Sunday Times

‘She is a brilliant writer and I was absolutely gripped’ Mail on Sunday

‘The top gun in this field’ Daily Telegraph

‘Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns’ Mirror

‘The Agatha Christie of the DNA age’ Express

‘One of the best crime writers writing today’ Guardian

‘Few writers match Patricia Cornwell when it comes to writing crime and her latest Scarpetta novel is one of her best’ Daily Express

‘When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell’ New York Times Book Review

‘Dazzling... After reading Cornwell’s thriller, most others will pale in comparison’ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

From the Back Cover:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with another scintillating thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

On a hot evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a dead bicyclist who was attacked with almost super human force. Before she s notified, her FBI agent husband receives a suspicious call, allegedly from Interpol. It becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of the cyberbully Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta. Even her brilliant tech-savvy niece, Lucy, can t trace whoever it is. When a second death hundreds of miles south shocks Scarpetta to her core, she s confronted with something far bigger and more dangerous than she d ever imagined.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410493245
• ISBN 13: 9781410493248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 591