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El cuerpo del delito / Body of Evidence: 2 (Doctora Kay Scarpetta, 2) Mass Market Paperback – 22 April 2025

Patricia Cornwell . Ediciones B Mexico . Spanish

Segundo título protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuación de una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos. La Biblioteca Cornwell presenta la segunda novela de su serie emblemática protagonizada por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense. Alguien acecha a la escritora Beryl Madison. Alguien que la espía, que observa todos sus movimientos y que le hace amenazantes y obscenas llamadas telefónicas. Y una noche, inexplicablemente, Beryl deja entrar en su casa a su asesino. Así comienza para la doctora Kay Scarpetta la investigación de un delito tan tortuoso como extraño. ¿Por qué abrió Beryl la puerta? Scarpetta comienza a atar los cabos de las intrincadas pruebas forenses# Y mientras reconstruye los pasos de la joven escritora, irá acercándose, poco a poco y sin darse cuenta, a un asesino que acecha en la sombra... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The inspiration for the Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell’s classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ...Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Categories: Science Fiction

About the Author

In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize—the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development. Today, Cornwell’s novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper’s identity, cookbooks, a children’s book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and two other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano and Andy Brazil. While writing Quantum, Cornwell spent two years researching space, technology, and robotics at Captain Calli Chase’s home base, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and studied cutting-edge law enforcement and security techniques with the Secret Service, the US Air Force, NASA Protective Services, Scotland Yard, and Interpol. Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston and Los Angeles.

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