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Cemiterio de Indigentes (From Potter's Field, Kay Scarpetta, Bk 6) (Portuguese Edition)
Cemiterio de Indigentes - From Potter's Field, Kay Scarpetta, Bk 6 - Portuguese Edition Author:Patricia Cornwell, Luciano Vieira Machado (Translator) Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical ExaminerI. The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak are... more »a of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work. Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway.
Portuguese Description
É Natal em Nova York. Há neve e alegria por toda parte. O ruído das festas não sabe dos sons assustadores que abafa. Ninguém ouve o tiro disparado no coração do Central Park, ninguém vê o corpo, mutilado e nu, num dos milhares de bancos da imensa praça branca. Quando a médica-legista examina o cadáver, ela tem certeza de que o mal está de volta. E, dessa vez, o 'serial killer' que invadiu sua vida, foi muito além do que se poderia esperar dele.« less