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 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
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Rating:  652 reviews
Sales Rank: 27699
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399153934
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399153938
ASIN: 0399153934
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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 Totally Bad October 15, 2008
Kathryn P. Jacobs
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Patricia Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta since the first book but this one is awful -- I am really having a hard time grasping what the story is about -- for the first time I don't like Benton and I don't like Marino in this book -- they seem totally different characters than in the other books. I do not recommend this book--finishing it is going to be a challenge!
geez, I could so better October 15, 2008
Melissa Jacob
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have to agree with the majority. I loved her earlier novels. I read this and wondered where the editor was. She speaks in some weird third person language, that while I understand may be important for setting the personality of some characters (maybe like Marino), but she does this with ALL the characters. OK, maybe that is not such a bad thing. But when there is no other merit, it really brings the whole book down. I kept on thinking, "Self (hehe), should I at least get my cat to read this before I ship it off to my editor?" Cornwell must have lost a lot of money in the stockmarket to try to pay for something, and laid out this book in 3 days, or she has a extremely idiotic ghost writer. I haven't even finished the book, and have been lamenting to my boyfriend, "Geez, this is DUMB!" I admit, I want to learn the ending, as implausible and chaotic and goofy as the plot is, but I am flipping through pages and pages to get to the nuts. All I have to say is... GEEZ, this gives me some reason to think about writing, as if Cornwell can put out this slop, surely can I. My only recommendation to read it is to verify that it is indeed as stupid as everyone thinks. The Market is down. Help P. C. pay for the Ferraris that she provides to those in the novel.
 is there no happiness in Scarpettta-land October 14, 2008
B. Evans (Gilroy, California)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been following the Scarpetta crowd for years and usually enjoy their ploits, antics, brilliance, and odd personalities. When this one came out, I didn't even wait for the paperback....I had to know what happens to these larger than life characters created by a great story teller. This is the first time I've been hugely disappointed! Though longer than most of Cornwall's books, the clues were so loosely held together that I had to reread a couple of chapters to see if I could find out how she moved from one clue to the next. They seemed to be held together by spider-web threads. The link between a couple of the clues remains more of a mystery than the novel..... It was almost impossible to tell how they actually solved this one. In addition....I was hugely disappointed in the characters. I've heard it said that good writing means characters must evolve, grow as human beings. These Scarpetta characters seem to be sinking into lower and lower levels of dysfunction with every novel. Just once--mind you, just once--I'd love to see Kay or Wesley or Lucy happy! Even if it was for a few minutes. Now--is that really too much to ask?
Not quite as bad as Predator October 11, 2008
Sandra Newby (Illinois)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
We are all impressed with Patricia Cornwell's [Kay Scarpetta's]knowledge of Italy; places, food, drink etc. I guess we are all a bunch of Rednecks with our noses pressed to the window of a world we can never be a part of.
I swore after the very dismal effort of Predator I would not read another Scarpetta mystery. However I relented and read this one. It was a little better. Slightly more human than the last. But I hate it when an author rushes through the final chapter. She still leaves you hanging over the fate of one of the main characters that has been piviotal in so many of her works. I like what Ms. Cormwell has done with Benton and Lucy. Maybe Scarpetta does have a heart.
Will I read Scarpetta when it comes out in December? Probably, but I won't be putting my name on a waiting list for it
Don't bother October 9, 2008
Sam Spade (Columbus, OH)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's not one of her best Scarpetta books - and it's the last book of Cornwell's I'll ever read. I'm sure Patricia would not pay me $10 ($9.99 plus tax actually) to find out my political beliefs, and I don't appreciate paying to find out hers. Her references to the President were not necessary and were not appreciated. There were opportunities for Ms. Cornwell to bring in the fact that Clinton liked to "be with" women besides his wife, and also that he lied under oath - that he has made a generation of teenagers think oral sex is not really sex. I hate that I won't know what happens to Marino, but I'm not paying Cornwell to find out what her politcal beliefs are. I wanted to be entertained and this book does not do it.
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