Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta) |
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| Title: | Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta) |
| Author: | Patricia Cornwell |
| Publisher: | Putnam Adult |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 02 December, 2008 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0399155163 / 9780399155161 |
| List Price: | $27.95 |
| You Save: | $9.50 |
| Amazon Price: | $18.45 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.
The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered—and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government? And what is the connection between the victims?
In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer investigation firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city—an odyssey that will take them at once to places they never knew, and much, much too close to home.
Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can provide. Once again, she proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
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Customer Reviews:
• Couldn't Finish It
03 March, 2010
I haven't read Patricia cornwall in a while, I remember liking her books, but I did not like this one at all, could not get into it at all, one of the few books I have abandoned half way through.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Big Kay Fan But Still Left Wondering What??
23 February, 2010
After BlowFly I quit purchasing Patricia's series. I know that some of the reviewers had made comments about too much personal stuff and not enough "story". Personally, the beginning of the series I was drawn in by her characters. A good balance of character development and "crime story".
This book, I feel, Patricia focused so much on each of the main characters throughout the story that when she didn't tie things up or at least mention the issues had been "rectified".....all we get is "six weeks later". So, I was left with disappointment again. The book was also choppy and it skipped around alot. This made it a little difficult to follow.
Thankfully, I can say I did not purchase this book or her prior one. I checked them out from the library. Tried to read Predator but bleh! (I promised myself that I would not purchase them unless I loved them!)
I thought the old nemisis tie in was interesting as I liked that particluar book. I felt that that particular story line went full circle, and letting Benton close it was good. However, I just wish that Patricia would let Benton and Kay put everything on the table and get things out. Same thing with Benton and Marino.....Lucy and Jamie too! If she meant for the reader coming away from the book thinking that this happened, she did it poorly! I was also left wondering did the FBI and Benton work things out??? She spent so much time on these issues that I was dissapointed that she didn't give some closer.
I stayed away for a long time....I guess it wasn't long enough.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Real Scarpetta
03 March, 2010
I realized after I ordered the book that I had just finished reading it and really want Scapetta Factor. I am a Cornwell fan and this was true to her best form. Following Scarpetta is always exciting!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Loved It
05 March, 2010
I read it in 2 days - maybe a very few pages were a little boring; but most of it were great. (I skip the boring parts)
- Amazon Customer Review
• My Third And Last Cornwell
04 March, 2010
I've read three Cornwell books. I don't remember the names, but I know I finished the first one. It was not a quarter so good as Tess Gerritsen fantastic novels with Isles and Rizzoli. The second one I returned to the owner after a few chapters. "Scarpetta" is the third and now I'm convinced I'm finished with Cornwell for good. Boring, boring, boring. I expected a detective story - I was totally wrong. This book is about few days in life of a medical examiner and people surrounding her. I don't care about Kay Scarpetta, I don't know her, I don't want to know about her marriage problems or about her lesbian niece Lucy. I want a good criminal plot! But criminal plot is a subplot and the murder is ridiculous and improbable. Characters are flat, unsympathetic and boring too. Only Pete Marino has some blood in his veins.
- Amazon Customer Review
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