The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
The Scarpetta Factor, Patricia Cornwell
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The Scarpetta Factor

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 16 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/16/2023


Synopsis

In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame.... 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, culminating in an ominous package—possibly a bomb—showing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she and her husband, Benton, live. 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 millionaire with whom her niece, 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.

About Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is a Miami born, contemporary crime novelist. Her books usually feature the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is a medical examiner. After a way sad childhood, Cornwall graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English. She wrote a biography of a family friend entitled, “A Time for Remembering”, then renamed “Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham” in 1983. After working in a Virginia medical examiners for six years, she wrote the first installment of her “Scarpetta” series entitled “Postmortem”. Her six year job was valuable in including a lot of forensic science details in her “Scarpetta” series. Her novels are considered to have influenced the creation of the TV series on forensics such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case. In the same vein Cornwell made a brief appearance on the Criminal Minds episode “True Genius”, as herself.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Book Review 4 of 5 stars to The Scarpetta Factor, the 17th book in the Kay Scarpetta mystery and thriller series, written by Patricia Cornwell and published in 2009. Many readers had mixed reactions to this book when it was released, thinking Cornwell finally got back on track with the ch......more

Somewhere in the 500-plus pages of this book is a good 300 page mystery struggling to get out. There were many points where I thought it would succeed, only to lose it again under the suffocating weight of each character's relentless self-absorption and analysis. Since The Body Farm, Cornwell has in......more

Goodreads review by Angela

I was lucky enough to have a training class with the New York Medical Examiner's Office this past week. Patricia Cornwell was kind enough to stop by with some books for the class -- so this is signed to me. Thank you Miss Cornwell! Even though I have a lovely hard cover I have started listening to thi......more

Goodreads review by Heidi

Somewhere along books #13-15, the Scarpetta series jumped the shark. I don't know if it's because Cornwell continues to tinker with place or has become overly involved in the innerworkings of her main characters, but while this wasn't a bad read, it wasn't the great read her Scarpetta books have bee......more

Sebbene non sia una fan del genere “crime thriller”, questa settimana una serie di circostanze fortuite mi ha fatto imbattere in un libro di Patricia Cornwell intitolato Il Fattore Scarpetta. L’ autrice non mi è nuova, infatti di suo ho già in libreria: La traccia e Ritratto di un assassino: Jack lo......more