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Bestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin's murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she's ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae.
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Theres no faulting the messenger in Patricia Cornwells latest thriller. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson renders the latest adventure of forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta quite perfectly. What Masterson cant do is save the novel, a pale imitation of a once robust franchise. Masterson breathes life into the colorful cast of characters that inhabit the Scarpetta world, giving each one a distinct personality. Ostensibly the book is about the murder of a 16-year-old tennis star by The Sandman. After a maddening series of subplots, hes captured in a couple sentences. It happens so fast this listener thought hed missed something. Either this is a terrible abridgment, or this series is dead. M.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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12 internautes sur 12 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile :
2.0étoiles sur 5 Very apt title, Déc 31 2007
Par Amanda Richards "Modest to the extreme" (Georgetown, Guyana) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Book Of The Dead (Hardcover)
This fifteenth Kay Scarpetta adventure is unfortunately not one of Cornwell's better books. Relocating to South Carolina and going into private practice has a detrimental effect on the main characters, all of whom become more and more unlikeable as the book progresses.

To be fair, it does have three murders, each involving torture in most ingenious ways, but even this barely registers among the flotsam.

You know you have a problem when the murderer is much more interesting than the good guys, but at least somebody's getting the job done while the others fret, moan, get jealous and either go ballistic or melt down. The story seems to go on forever, the book of the title appearing almost as a secondary thought to facilitate a cool title.

To add to the foregoing, after you work your way through the 387 pages of the hardcover version, the story just stops.

No cliffhanger - it just stops!

..and with that, so will I





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3.0étoiles sur 5 NOT ONE OF HER BEST, Déc 12 2007
This review is from: Book Of The Dead (Hardcover)
Her latest is not one of her best. Very confusing and choppy. Story jumps all over the place. Left feeling like I needed to read it again.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 Terrible, Déc 13 2007
Par Dennis Orr (Vancouver, BC) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Probably not the worst book I've ever read, but surely the worst by a "name" author. Amazingly, on amazon.com over 40% of the people rated this with 5 stars.

I used to love this series. Scarpetta and Marino were characters that I cared about. The last couple of books were disappointing, but this one was close to being unreadable. After wading through 400 pages the "climax" takes less than a paragraph. It doesn't even make much sense, almost like it was thrown in because she knew the book had to end.

Cornwell leaves loose ends involving some of the major characters. I assume she thought this would be the only way to keep her loyal readers interested in this dreck.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Book of the Dead
A well written mystery by a knowledgeable writer can be a great delight. This one is a very good example;

Patricia Cornwells Kay Scarpetta books are legion. Read more
Publié il y a 3 mois par Susan Ricketts

1.0étoiles sur 5 Very disappointing
The last three books by Patricia Cornwell have been slowly getting more disappointing but this one is the worst. Read more
Publié il y a 11 mois par voraciousreader

3.0étoiles sur 5 I actually found some things to like in Cornwell's newest Scarpetta novel
Well, here we are at the 15th of the Kay Scarpetta Mysteries written by Patricia Cornwell, and it is rather amazing how many people are still reading the books and bitterly... Read more
Publié le Nov. 11 2007 par Lawrance M. Bernabo

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