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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty- fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

No.1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta--a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.

Kay Scarpetta deve incontrare alla Georgia Prison for Women una detenuta colpevole di reati sessuali e madre di un diabolico killer. Kay è determinata a far parlare la donna per scoprire che cosa è davvero successo al suo vice, Jack Fielding, ucciso sei mesi prima. È una ricerca personale e anche professionale, dal momento che Kay sta seguendo un'indagine che riguarda una serie di macabri crimini che lei è convinta abbiano a che fare anche con la morte di Jack Fielding. L'uccisione di un'intera famiglia a Savannah, una giovane donna nel braccio della morte e una catena di altre morti inspiegabili sembrano essere tutti collegati fra loro. Ma chi c'è dietro tutto questo e perché? Kay Scarpetta scopre presto che questo è solo l'inizio di qualcosa di più terribile: un complotto terroristico internazionale. E lei è l'unica che può fermarlo.

"A desperate mother. Her missing child. A stolen chalice." With "Silent Night", Mary Higgins Clark, America's own Queen of Suspense, gave her readers their best Christmas present ever. Now, with "All Through the Night", she once again celebrates the Christmas season with a tale of suspense that will keep readers turning the pages-- all through the night. At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, both of them caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of Alvirah's deductive powers, as well as Willy's world-class common sense. The story begins when a young unmarried woman leaves her newborn child on the rectory doorstep at a church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At the same moment, inside the church, a young man is stealing a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both the infant and the chalice disappear. Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas, Alvirah and Willy are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia, a nun who runs a thrift shop that doubles as an after-school shelter for neighborhood kids, prepare for the upcoming Christmas pageant. The future of the shelter is threatened, however, when the city condemns the building for that use, and it is further jeopardized when a nearby brownstone to which the shelter was to be moved turns out to have been willed to a young couple who were tenants in the building. Alvirah refuses to believe that the will is genuine and sets out to prove that the couple are con artists. Soon she is involved in the mystery of the chalice and the child. In "All Through the Night", Mary Higgins Clark has fashioned a Christmas gift for all her readers.

È la settimana prima di Natale e Kay Scarpetta sta prestando servizio volontario presso l'Istituto di medicina legale di New York, dove le viene chiesto di esaminare il cadavere di una ventiseienne, ritrovato poco prima dell'alba a Central Park. La causa del decesso sembra banale ma, quando si tratta di stabilire l'ora precisa della morte, l'ipotesi di Kay pare incompatibile con gli elementi emersi dalle indagini. Quella sera stessa, tornata a casa, riceve un pacco sospetto, forse una bomba. Una minaccia che ha origine nel suo passato e in quello delle due persone che le sono più vicine: il marito e la nipote Lucy.

Meridian Sozu is a Fenestra—the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead. She has the dark responsibility of helping souls transition safely into the afterlife. If people die without the help of a Fenestra, their souls are left vulnerable to be stolen by the Aternocti, a dark band of forces who disrupt the balance of good and evil in the world and cause chaos.Having recently lost her beloved Auntie—the woman who showed her what it meant to be a Fenestra—Meridian has hit the road with Tens, her love and sworn protector, in hopes of finding another Fenestra. Their search leads them to Indiana, where Juliet, a responsible and loving teenager, works tirelessly in the nursing home where she and several other foster kids are housed. Surrounded by death, Juliet struggles to make a loving home for the younger kids, and to protect them from the violent whims of their foster mother. But she is struggling against forces she can't understand . . . and even as she feels a pull toward the dying, their sickness seems to infect her, weighing her down. . . .Will Meri and Tens find Juliet in time to save her from a life of misery and illness? And will Meri and Tens' own romance weather the storms of new discoveries?From the Hardcover edition.

Scarpetta is investigating the disappearance of four people from their home when Marino discovers a woman living nearby murdered in her bed.

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying thriller featuring San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy, who faces the case of his career when his family becomes involved. Dismas, a devoted husband and father, is thrown into turmoil when his wife, Frannie, fails to pick up their children from school. His fears are confirmed when he learns that Frannie is in jail, summoned before a grand jury in a murder investigation. She has refused to disclose a secret entrusted to her by a friend, a fellow parent accused of killing his wife, who has now vanished. To free Frannie, Dismas must clear her friend of murder, but finding him proves challenging. As he navigates the intricate world of San Francisco's politics and big business, Dismas grapples with his wife's loyalty to another man, leaving him questioning the nature of truth and the depths of their relationship. What could compel a wife to protect another man at such a cost? With a masterful blend of suspense and emotional complexity, the author delivers a gripping narrative that explores the fragility of trust and the lengths one will go to for family.