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From Potter's field / Patricia Cornwell.

Summary:

In New York, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, matches wits with a sadistic killer who operates in the subway tunnels. After killing a transit policeman he infiltrates the FBI's computers and sends her taunting messages while continuing to kill. The Central Park (New York) murder of a young, homeless woman on Christmas sends medical examiner Scarpetta, her friend Captain Marino, & her niece on a chase that ends in the subway. The sixth suspense thriller in an award-winning series finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta matching wits with a sadistic killer who infiltrates the FBI's top-secret artificial-intelligence system and closes in on Scarpetta herself.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316914150
  • ISBN: 0684195984
  • ISBN: 9780316914154
  • ISBN: 9780684195988
  • Physical Description: 412 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, [1995]

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader Upper Grades 4.8 14.0 Quiz: 43285.
Subject: Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Forensic pathologists > Fiction.
Medical examiners (Law) > Fiction.
Women physicians > Fiction.
Virginia > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Medical fiction.

Available copies

  • 67 of 71 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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  • 2 current holds with 71 total copies.
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