Predator by Patricia Cornwell

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Patricia Cornwell
• Title: Predator (A Kay Scarpetta Series)
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: October 25, 2005
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 406 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0399152830
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399152832
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.36 x 1.43 x 9.5 inches
• Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize—the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year.

Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development.

Today, Cornwell’s novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper’s identity, cookbooks, a children’s book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and two other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano and Andy Brazil.

While writing Quantum, Cornwell spent two years researching space, technology, and robotics at Captain Calli Chase’s home base, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and studied cutting-edge law enforcement and security techniques with the Secret Service, the US Air Force, NASA Protective Services, Scotland Yard, and Interpol.

Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston and Los Angeles.