Cornwell, Patricia Daniels creator author. text Romance fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. nyu 2024 2024 First edition. monographic eng

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394 pages ; 24 cm. "Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil"-- Patricia Cornwell. "A Scarpetta Novel" Women physicians Fiction Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction Medical examiners (Law) Fiction Forensic pathologists Fiction PS3553.O692 I34 2024 813/.54 9781538770382 2024014051 DLC 240329 20241029115004.0 zblueh b134337 eng