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Chaos
(Large Print)

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New York, NY : Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016].
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Large Print
Edition:
First HarperLuxe edition.
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546 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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“When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell.”

New York Times Book Review

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CHAOS

From the Ancient Greek (???? or kháos)

A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.

On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.

Even before Scarpetta’s headquarters has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta’s FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case or be interested? It soon becomes apparent that an onslaught of harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a week.

Even Lucy, her brilliant tech-savvy niece, can’t trace who it is or how this person could have access to intimate information. When a second death shocks Scarpetta to her core, it becomes apparent she and those close to her are confronted with something far bigger and more dangerous than they’d ever imagined.

 

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9780062436733, 0062436732

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In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta's conclusions, the threatening messages don't stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa's death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley. She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta's surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can't explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Cornwell, P. D. (2016). Chaos. First HarperLuxe edition. New York, NY, Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. 2016. Chaos. New York, NY, Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, Chaos. New York, NY, Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Chaos. First HarperLuxe edition. New York, NY, Harper Luxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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