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The Scarpetta Factor 

 (Kay Scarpetta, book 17)

by

Patricia Cornwell

The Scarpetta Factor

(Book 17 in the Kay Scarpetta series)
(2009)
A novel by

Patricia Cornwell



 

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 millionaires 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 Factor, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger.
 
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1410420019Title: The Scarpetta Factor (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 1-4104-2001-9 / 978-1-4104-2001-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0316733164Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-316-73316-4 / 978-0-316-73316-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0356256650Title: Scarpetta Factor Signed Edition
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-356-25665-0 / 978-0-356-25665-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
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October 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0399156399Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-399-15639-9 / 978-0-399-15639-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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May 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0751538760Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-7515-3876-0 / 978-0-7515-3876-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Sphere
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May 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 075154387XTitle: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-7515-4387-X / 978-0-7515-4387-2 (UK edition)
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April 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0425235785Title: Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-425-23578-5 / 978-0-425-23578-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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October 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1408702274Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 1-4087-0227-4 / 978-0-316-73317-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown
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October 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1444501933Title: The Scarpetta Factor [Large Print]: 16 Point (Large Print Edition)
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 1-4445-0193-3 / 978-1-4445-0193-3
Publisher: Royal National Institute of Blind People
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October 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0316733172Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 0-316-73317-2 / 978-0-316-73317-5 (USA edition)
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October 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1405504374Title: The Scarpetta Factor
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 1-4055-0437-4 / 978-1-4055-0437-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Hachette Audio
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October 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0143145479Title: The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
Author(s): Patricia D. Cornwell
ISBN: 0-14-314547-9 / 978-0-14-314547-9 (UK edition)
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October 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0143145487Title: The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
Author(s): Patricia D. Cornwell
ISBN: 0-14-314548-7 / 978-0-14-314548-6 (UK edition)
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