شکارچی: اسکارپتا (جلد ۱۴)

SUMMARY: Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer's mind.

dr. Kay Scarpetta, Now Freelancing With The National Forensic Academy In Florida, Takes Charge Of A Case That Stretches From Steamy Florida To Snowbound Boston; One That At First Appears As Unnerving As Any She Has Ever Faced. The Teasing Psychological Clues Lead Scarpetta And Her Team-pete Marino, Benton Wesley, And Lucy Farinelli-to Suspect That They Are Hunting Someone With A Cunning And Malevolent Mind Whose Secrets Have Kept Them In The Shadows, Until Now. predator Is Proof Once Again That Patricia Cornwell Has Few Peers With Her Extraordinary Ability To Entertain And Enthrall.

the New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

the Contrived Plot That Drags Scarpetta Out Of The Classroom And Onto The Killing Fields In Pursuit Of A Madman…plays Out In Too Fragmented A Form To Sustain Much Suspense. But Cornwell Opens Up A Fascinating New Field For Scarpetta When She Involves Her In The Study That Her Lover, A Forensic Psychologist, Is Conducting Up In Boston With Compulsive Murderers—terminology He Considers More Scientifically Exact Than Serial Killers. Whatever You Call Them, They Have The Author's Attention Here, And When She Isn't Too Busy Doling Out Bits Of Business To Scarpetta's Posse Of Co-sleuths, Cornwell Brings Them To Full, Frightening Life.

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? Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team -- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli -- to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall. Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor