Thursday, January 20, 2011

BAFFLING BINGO MYSTERY DAY: THE SCARPETTA FACTOR - A GIVEAWAY

WELCOME TO
BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
"BAFFLING BINGO DAY"
I'M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS THURSDAY'S
"BAFFLING BINGO DAY"
MYSTERY BOOK CHOICE IS.....
 THE SCARPETTA FACTOR
BY PATRICIA CORNWELL
ABOUT THE BOOK:
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta-despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same telecast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's. When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds an ominous package-possibly a bomb-waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.

Scarpetta's CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called The Scarpetta Factor. Given the bizarre events already in play, she fears that her growing fame will generate the illusion that she has a "special factor," a mythical ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.

The Scarpetta Factor, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psycho­logical expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Patricia Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956, in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina.

Following graduation from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer, rapidly advancing from listing television programs to writing feature articles to covering the police beat. She won an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte.

Her award-winning biography of Ruth Bell Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia.

Her first crime novel, Postmortem, was published by Scribner’s in 1990. Initially rejected by seven major publishing houses, it became the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year. In Postmortem, Cornwell introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta as the intrepid Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1999, Dr. Scarpetta herself won the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author.

Following the success of her first novel, Cornwell has written a series of bestsellers featuring Kay Scarpetta, her detective sidekick Pete Marino, and her brilliant and unpredictable niece, Lucy Farinelli: Body of Evidence (1991), All That Remains (1992), Cruel and Unusual (1993) [which won Britain’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the year’s best crime novel], The Body Farm (1994), From Potter’s Field (1995), Cause of Death (1996), Unnatural ExposurePoint of Origin (1998), Black Notice (1999), The Last Precinct (2000), Blow Fly (2003), Trace (2004), Predator (2005), Book of the Dead (2007) [which won the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards’ Books Direct Crime Thriller of the year; she is the first American ever to win this award], Scarpetta (2008), The Scarpetta Factor (2009) and Port Mortuary (2010). To read more about Author Patricia Cornwell visit her bio page on her website HERE!

READ AN EXCERPT:
A frigid wind gusted in from the East River, snatching at Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s coat as she walked quickly along 30th Street. It was one week before Christmas without a hint of the holidays in what she thought of as Manhattan’s Tragic Triangle, three vertices connected by wretchedness and death. Behind her was Memorial Park, a voluminous white tent housing the vacuum-packed human remains still unidentified or unclaimed from Ground Zero. Ahead on the left was the Gothic redbrick former Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, now a shelter for the homeless. Across from that was the loading dock and bay for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where a gray steel garage door was open. A truck was backing up, more pallets of plywood being unloaded. It had been a noisy day at the morgue, a constant hammering in corridors that carried sound like an amphitheater. The mortuary techs were busy assembling plain pine coffins, adult-size, infant-size, hardly able to keep up with the growing demand for city burials at Potter’s Field. Economy-related. Everything was.  To continue reading this excerpt, go to the PENGUIN BOOKS Website HERE!
 
GIVEAWAY
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TO GIVE AWAY TO ONE LUCKY WINNER
 
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GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
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GOOD LUCK! 

139 comments:

bermudaonion said...

I want to read this because I love the Kay Scarpetta books! milou2ster(at)gmail.com

bermudaonion said...

One of the Patricia Cornwell books I've read is The Body Farm. milou2ster(at)gmail.com

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debbie said...

This is one of my favorite authors. I would love to see what happens in this newest book.
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debbie said...

I read her scarpetta book and really liked it.
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debbie said...

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Steve Capell said...

I would love to read this book as Cornwell has been a favorite writer of mine for many years. I have read the following novels:

Postmortem
Body of Evidence
The Body Farm
Cause of Death
Point of Origin
Black Notice
The Last Precinct
Blow Fly
Predator

Of course Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner, is the protagonist in Partrica Cornwell novels, but I also have come to enjoy Pete Marino a detective very much in her writings and I always look forward to his down to earth … mater of fact … demeanor.

Needless to say I am very interested in this mystery novel so without further commentary I drop my name in your Florida bonnet and hope for the best. I walk out of Bingo’s Blog knowing that I need to get outside and remove 9” of white stuff that fell from the sky last night … hmm I much rather read a novel.

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Anne said...

I'd like to read Portrait of a Killer, I watched the Dateline or 20/20 special about it a couple of years ago.

I want to read this book, cause I've read the whole series and want to see what's new.

Hane't entered any of the other giveaways, but will check them out.

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Carol N Wong said...

I too, love the Kay Scarpetta books, especially the ones wth Lucy in them. I think this particular book is especially intriguing because of the facts found in the autopsy don't jive.
I know from experience that her books are always pageturners.


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Carol N Wong said...

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Carol N Wong said...

From my experience, library book sales usually have a good selection of her books.

I have read these:
Predator
From Potter's Field
The Body Farm
Cause of Death
Cruel and Unusal
Scarpetta
Post Mortem

They were all great.

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Carol N Wong said...

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Lisa Richards/alterlisa said...

I didn't realize that Cornwell was from NC. Montreat, NC is very close to where I live.


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Lisa Richards/alterlisa said...

Port Mortuary is one that I look forward to reading.

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Linda Kish said...

All I needed to read was your title! I love Kay Scarpetta stories. Patricia Cornwell is such a good author.

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Linda Kish said...

I'd like to read Port Mortuary. It's in my TBR pile right now.

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captainliss40 said...

I enjoy the series so am drawn to the book! captainliss40(at)gmail(dot)com

moonsword said...

I think it's very impressive that Patricia is the first American ever to win the Galaxy British Book Awards’ Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year. Also known as the "Nibbies", nominations are submitted by members of the book trade and the awards are considered to be the British book industry's 'Oscars.

moonsword said...

I read the Andy Brazil series...definitely a different flavor than Scarpetta, but very enjoyable.

moonsword said...

I also entered the Free Fall Fern Michaels giveaway.

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I also entered the Cake Boss giveaway.

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I also entered the Young Readers' Series giveaway.

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I also entered the Brunch with Bingo Bonanza giveaway.

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I also entered the Mystery Trilogy giveaway.

Karen B said...

I'd love to read this because it is sounds so intriguing. Great cast of characters.
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Karen B said...

I'd like to read Postmortem.
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Harvee said...

I'm intrigued by a forensic analyst/doctor as the main character in the series.

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Harvee said...

Would love to read her recent book, Port Mortuary. Clever title.

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Janelle said...

Really enjoy her characters: Kay Scarpetta, & Pete Morino!
Thanks for a chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
Best wishes,
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Janelle said...

I read Blow Fly!
Thanks for a chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
Best wishes,
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Janelle said...

I entered The Heir giveaway, too!
Thanks for a chance to win this wonderful giveaway!
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mamabunny13 said...

I would love to win this because we collect her books and this one sounds like a pretty good one.
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mamabunny13 said...

I would like to read the body farm
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Unknown said...

I want to read this book because it sounds very good. Please enter me in contest. Tore923@aol.com

SLM said...

I've been reading Patricia Cornwell's books for many years. However, I have not read this one. I love Kay Scarpetta's character, and I love a good mystery.

SLM said...

Post Mortuary looks like it would be another good read.

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Unknown said...

Why do I want to win this book you ask?? Well 4 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter I was on bed rest and didn't have much to do so I read everything I got my hands on. That was when I discovered her Kay Scarpetta series and I try my best to read everything she puts out. I love he whole series and gladni found them.

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I posted to twitter but I'm having to use my iPad. My laptop is down. So I'm not sure how to get you the exact twitter link. But I'm pretty sure I follow you @BoosPlace

Unknown said...

I love this series although I've not read the whole complete series I'm working on it. I think the very first book I read was Body of Evidence because it was the only book of hers my library had. But because of me they are slowly getting all her books. I have to say my local libraries selection is lacking.

skkorman said...

I want to read this book because I love the Scarpetta series—I was hooked from the very first one!

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skkorman said...

I like "Postmortem" because it was my first introduction to the fascinating Kay Scarpetta!

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I entered to win the Chelsea Cain trilogy!

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Meredith said...

Sounds like a great mystery! I wonder if it's hard to stay objective when you're a reporter or expert and you're investigating the case that's being reported?

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Meredith said...

I think I would like to read the Andy Brazil series starting with Isle of Dogs.

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rubynreba said...

I would like to read this because I enjoy mysteries and I have not read any of her books but she sounds like a great author.
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bison61 said...

I love the Kay Scarpetta books

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CherylS22 said...

I want to win this book because it looks like another great Dr. Kay Scarpetta book.
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CherylS22 said...

I have read many of Patricia Cornwell's books - 'All That Remains' & 'The Body Farm'
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holdenj said...

I have yet to read a Scarpetta novel and would love to! Thanks!
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Hootowl said...

My husband is a huge Patricia Cornwell fan. I would love to win this book for him. Everything about this book made him interested. It is on his wish list.

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Hootowl said...

Our favorite books of hers is the The Scarpetta Series

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LAMusing said...

I'm a fan of Dr. Kay and this sounds like a good one!
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LAMusing said...

Looks like I've read about half of the Scarpetta series. I'd be curious to read one of her Andy Brazil series
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Norma said...

Interesting about how CNN wants her to do a show, and the concerns that gives her.
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I had no idea there were so many books in the Scarpetta series! I'd love to read them all!
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