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Kay Scarpetta Serie

Esta apasionante serie sigue a una brillante patóloga forense mientras se adentra en los rincones más oscuros de la mente humana para descubrir la verdad detrás de los crímenes más brutales. Con cada caso, se enfrenta no solo a los perpetradores, sino también a sus propias limitaciones y dilemas morales. Su enfoque inflexible y sus habilidades analíticas la llevan a exponer motivos ocultos y a culpables que buscan permanecer sin ser detectados. Es un viaje fascinante al mundo de la ciencia forense y la psicología criminal.

Una muerte sin nombre
La granja de cuerpos
Cruel and Unusual
La Jota de Corazones
El cuerpo del delito
Post Mortem

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  1. Post Mortem

    • 368 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crímenes actúa siempre los sábados, de madrugada, y deja muy pocas pistas. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del departamento de Medicina Legal de la ciudad, recibe una llamada a las 2:33h, supone que algo grave ha sucedido: hay una cuarta víctima. Kay Scarpetta recurrirá a los últimos avances en medicina legal y tendrá que vérserlas con aquéllos que quieren sabotear su trabajo... Y es que no a todo el mundo le gusta ver a una mujer en el puesto que ella ocupa.

    Post Mortem1
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  2. El cuerpo del delito

    • 479 páginas
    • 17 horas de lectura

    La autora, maestra de las novelas de intriga, vuelve con esta magnífica obra al complicado mundo en que se desenvuelve la intrépida doctora en Medicina Legal Kay Scarpetta. Una escritora solitaria, Beryl Madison, se refugia en Miami intentando huir de las amenazadoras llamadas telefónicas que la acosan desde hace meses y de la angustiosa sensación de que alguien observa todos sus movimientos. Pero no hay escapatoria para Beryl, pues en cuanto regresa a su hogar es brutalmente asesinada.

    El cuerpo del delito2
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  3. La Jota de Corazones

    • 446 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them ...

    La Jota de Corazones3
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  4. Cruel and Unusual

    • 437 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ... At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position ...

    Cruel and Unusual4
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  5. La granja de cuerpos

    • 467 páginas
    • 17 horas de lectura

    Los habitantes de Black Mountain apenas conocen el miedo. No hay nada que temer hasta que, un día, aparece el cadáver de una muchacha y se instala en los habitantes del pueblo un dolor más parecido a la incredulidad que al terror. La doctora Scarpetta, forense famosa por haber resuelto casos similares, acude a Black Mountain y estudia los primeros indicios, aparentemente claros. Sin embargo, poco a poco, el caso adquiere dimensiones que acabarán implicándola personalmente y llevándola al único lugar donde encontrar información precisa: la granja de cuerpos. "Ya no queda ninguna duda de que Patricia Cornwell es la escritora americana de literatura criminal más estimulante y escalofriante." The Times.

    La granja de cuerpos5
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  6. Una muerte sin nombre

    • 381 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    Parece que Temple Brooks Gault, el asesino en serie que se ha convertido en última pesadilla de la investigadora Scarpetta, ha vuelto a cometer un asesinato. La víctima es una mujer blanca cuya identidad es imposible de aclarar: las pistas encontradas en el escenario del crimen y en el cuerpo de la víctima son tan evidentes que parecen dejadas a propósitos como indicios de un desafío.

    Una muerte sin nombre6
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  7. Causa de muerte

    • 348 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    El cadáver de Theodore Andrew Edding ha aparecido bajo el agua, tras una supuesta sesión de inmersión. La forense Kay Scarpetta se encarga del caso y empieza a recibir llamadas telefónicas con identidades falsas, al tiempo que se producen comportamientos sospechosos por parte de sus colegas, intrigantes visitas nocturnas y molestos sabotajes. Ante esta situación, a Scarpetta no le queda más remedio que encerrarse en su laboratorio y no dejar ningún indicio por investigar.

    Causa de muerte7
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  8. Un ambiente extran̋o

    • 448 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Kay Scarpetta viaja a Dublin para investigar una serie de homicidios ocurridos en Irlanda diez anos atras. Estos presentan algunas similitudes con el caso del Carnicero, que ha infundido el panico en los habitantes de Virginia, y se intenta establecer si ambos sucesos presentan caracteristicas comunes. De vuelta en Estados Unidos todo se precipita: el torso de una mujer aparece en un vertedero con los miembros amputados e inquietantes muestras de herpes en determinadas zonas. El arma ha sido una sierra de carnicero, como en los casos irlandeses, pero la forma de amputar no responde al mismo patron. Todo parece indicar que se trata de asesinos distintos, hasta que la doctora Scarpetta recibe el primero de una serie de macabros mensajes por correo electronico firmados por "muerteadoc."

    Un ambiente extran̋o8
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  9. Point of origin

    • 342 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura

    Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. Before she does so she sends Kay Scarpetta a message which makes it all too clear that she blames her (and Lucy, and Benton Wesley, and Pete Marino) for Gault's death, and has specific - if cryptic - plans for revenge. Wary and quite shaken, Scarpetta still has a professional life to get on with, including investigating the death of an unknown female in a fire which has destroyed the isolated farmhouse home of her erstwhile political boss. The post mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, but while Scarpetta and her colleagues are puzzling over means and motive they are called out to the scene of another fire and another murder. The pattern is the same, the answers as elusive and then Benton disappears while following up a tip-off. Suddenly, and with appalling clarity, Scarpetta sees that Carrie has set up a scenario in which she can manipulate them all and in which she appears to have the inescapable upper hand. A novel of high suspense from the acknowledged mistress of the forensic thriller.

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  10. Identidad desconocida

    • 447 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Kay es víctima del juego sucio de un desconocido que pretende arruinar su carrera. Los restos del cuerpo de un hombre hallados en un contenedor de un barco procedente de Bélgica son sorprendentes: los rayos X revelan cicatrices profundas y en su ropa aparecen unos pelos extraños, semejantes a los de un animal. Una serie de coincidencias con las pruebas obtenidas en Francia, en el examen de otros cuerpos, la guiará hasta el cuartel general de la Interpol en Lyon.

    Identidad desconocida10
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  11. El Último Reducto

    • 441 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia’s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case—and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left?

    El Último Reducto11
    3,9

  12. La Mosca de la Muerte

    • 432 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Deseosa de empezar una nueva vida libre de los lastres del pasado, Kay Scarpetta decide cerrar su etapa como forense en Richmond y elige Florida como destino donde alcanzar la tan anhelada tranquilidad. Sin embargo, hay alguien que no esta dispuesto a que la doctora rehaga su vida: Jean- Baptiste Chandonme, el psicopata que la aterrorizo tiempo atras, la reclama ahora desde el corredor de la muerte. La mosca de la muerte es una novela intensa cuyos protagonistas se ven irremediablemente abocados a enfrentase con fantasmas del pasado: Scarpetta con Chandonme, Pete Marino con un hombre al que todos daban por muerto y que se oculta en Boston.

    La Mosca de la Muerte12
    3,8

  13. La Huella

    • 416 páginas
    • 15 horas de lectura

    Scarpetta regresa a la clnica forense de Richmond para participar en la investigacin de Gilly, que fue hallada muerta en su cama sin aparentes signos de violencia; sin embargo, el hecho de que la autopsia se est posponiendo ms de lo previsto y que el FBI est interesado en conocer los resultados de la misma despierta el recelo de la forense. Wesley recomienda cautela e insina que el caso podra ser una tapadera, confirmando as las sospechas de Scarpetta.

    La Huella13
    3,8

  14. Predator

    • 400 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an extremely cunning and criminal mind. She and her team --- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece, Lucy --- track the odd connections between several horrific crimes and the people who are the likely suspects. As one psychopath, safely behind bars and the subject of a classified scientific study at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact --- or fantasy --- the number of killers on the loose seems to multiply. Are these events related or merely random? And what can the study of one man's brain tell them about the methods of a psychopath still lurking in the shadows?

    Predator14
    3,7

  15. El libro de los muertos

    • 440 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    Bestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin's murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she's ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae. Reed Business Information

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  16. Scarpetta

    Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric 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 bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder ... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

    Scarpetta16
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  17. The Scarpetta Factor

    It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN - to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same telecast she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley’s. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal 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. Scarpetta's CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called The Scarpetta Factor. Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a 'special factor,' a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities - her own stereotype.

    The Scarpetta Factor17
    3,7

  19. Red Mist

    • 501 páginas
    • 18 horas de lectura

    The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

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    3,8

  20. The Bone Bed

    • 496 páginas
    • 18 horas de lectura

    Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.

    The Bone Bed20
    3,7

  22. Kay Scarpetta 22. La marca de la sangre

    • 432 páginas
    • 16 horas de lectura

    La doctora Kay Scarpetta se ve envuelta en la investigación de un homicidio en Cambridge, donde un profesor de música es asesinado con una precisión aterradora. Al mismo tiempo, descubre monedas misteriosas en su casa. La búsqueda de un francotirador en serie revela una verdad sorprendente relacionada con su sobrina Lucy.

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  24. Chaos

    • 385 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

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

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    Three Complete Novels. Postmortem. Body of Evidence. All That Remains
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    • 94 páginas
    • 4 horas de lectura

    In diesem Buch zeigt sich die Krimiheldin Kay Scarpetta als Gastgeberin, die zusammen mit ihrem Kollegen Pete Marino und ihrer Nichte Lucy Farinelli an Weihnachten kocht. Jeder bringt sein Spezialgericht mit, was einen neuen Blick auf die Charaktere aus Patricia Cornwells Bestsellern ermöglicht.

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