SCARPETTA View our feature on Patricia Cornwells Scarpetta.   From Americas #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.   Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an   assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospitals   psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when   she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk”and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the   most bizarre she has ever heard.   The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally   insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed   and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and   murdered”and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is   committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the   connection between the victims?   In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who   has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase   through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city”an odyssey that will take them at once to places they   never knew, and much, much too close to home.   Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she   can provide. Once again, she proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.    Watch a Video