by Patricia Cornwell
30/7 - I really enjoyed the story, especially the police/detective work, but as with her previous four books; Blowfly, Trace, Predator, and Book of the Dead, I didn't like the way she wrote them all in the 3rd person - it makes it all seem so impersonal. Written in the 3rd person Scarpetta the chara...
The story starts in the middle of a murder investigation. The preliminaries seemed to go on for quite a bit with the reader gathering snippets here and there of what transpired -- I don't enjoy this method of piecing details together. In my opinion, that first bit was quite draggy and didn't really...
I thoroughly enjoyed earlier Scarpetta books but the later ones just seem to have lost it for me
This is my first Patricia Cornwell, starting 16 books into the series, which is probably not optimal. Earlier books may be better. I may try them some day. I may not.I did, however, come in with a bad attitude towards the author and her knowledge of how detective work might work, given her ludicrous...
I listened to this book on CD, which, in my opinion, is the best way to take in Cornwell's Scarpetta series. The narration was excellent, as usual. I had read several reviews that claimed this volume got back to the heart of the Scarpetta series, and I'm not sure that's true. For a book that claims ...
I found the plot to be as interesting as previous books in the series, but the lack of first person POV really confused me in regards to the dialogue several times.Most of the time, it felt like one character was doing all of the talking for the good guys, regardless of which character was actually ...
Patricia Cornwell's latest entry in the Kay Scarpetta series (named after both the protagonist and a book being written as part of a plot element) took a while to get moving. While this series usually grabs me and does not let go, a rather confusing series of events takes place early in the book.Wh...
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