El cuerpo del delito (Body of Evidence)

by Patricia Cornwell

Overview

Alguien acecha a Beryl Madison. Alguien que la espía, que observa todos sus movimientos y que le hace amenazantes y obscenas llamadas telefónicas. La joven y solitaria escritora busca refugio en Miami, pero al final regresa a su casa de Richmond. La misma noche en que llega, Beryl, inexplicablemente, franquea el paso de su casa al asesino. Así comienza para la doctora Kay Scarpetta la investigación de un delito tan tortuoso como extraño. ¿Por qué abrió Beryl la puerta? ¿Conocía a su asesino? Scarpetta comienza a atar los cabos de las intrincadas pruebas forenses y, gracias a unas inquietantes cartas, descubre que la escritora estaba siendo acosada. Lo que Scarpetta no consigue explicarse es por qué Beryl dejó entrar al criminal. Por su parte, el codicioso abogado de Madison acusa a la forense de perder el último manuscrito de su cliente, un texto autobiográfico en el que hablaba de su enigmática relación con un galardonado y reconocido escritor. Mientras Scarpetta reconstruye los pasos de Beryl, irá acercándose, poco a poco y sin darse cuenta, a un asesino que acecha en la sombra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788498727456
Publisher:	Ediciones B
Publication date:	03/31/2013
Series:	Kay Scarpetta (Foreign Language Editions) Series , #2
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Patricia Cornwell writes crime fiction from an unusually informed point of view. While many writers are, as she says, conjuring up "fantasy" assumptions regarding what really goes into tracking criminals and examining crime scenes, Cornwell really does walk the walk, which is why her novels ring so true.

Before becoming one of the most widely recognized, respected, and read writers in contemporary crime fiction, she worked as a police reporter for The Charlotte Observer and as a computer analyst in the chief medical examiner's office in Virginia. During this period of her life, Cornwell observed literally hundreds of autopsies. While the vast majority of people would surely regard such work unsavory beyond belief, Cornwell was acquiring valuable information that would not only help her write the groundbreaking 2002 study Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed but would also enrich her fiction with uncommon authenticity.

"Most of these crime scene shows... are what I call `Harry Potter' policing," she said in a candid, heated interview. "They're absolutely fantasy. And the problem is the general public watches these, 60 million people a week or whatever, and they think what they're seeing is true." If Cornwell comes off as a bit vehement in her criticism of television shows meant to simply entertain, that's just because she takes her work so seriously.

Not that Cornwell's novels are ever anything short of entertaining, even if their grisly details may require extra-strong stomachs of her readers. She has created a tremendously well-defined and complex character in her favorite fictional crime solver Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell introduced medical examiner Scarpetta in her first novel, Postmortem in 1990. Today, Scarpetta is still cracking cases and cracking open cadavers. (She has even inspired a cook book called Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen.) In addition, Cornwell writes more lighthearted cop capers in her Andy Brazil & Judy Hammer series.

Hometown:

Boston, MA and New York, NY

Date of Birth:

June 9, 1956

Place of Birth:

Miami, Florida

Education:

B.A. in English, Davidson College, 1979; King College

Website:

http://www.patriciacornwell.com