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| AUTHOR: | Patricia Daniels Cornwell |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Berkley Publishing Group |
| ISBN: | 0425158616 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Medical, Mystery & Detective - Series, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Mystery/Suspense, Suspense |
| MEDIA: | Mass Market Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Not Cornwell's best, but still in there swinging. I have read all of Cornwell's books and can now honestly say I am deeply depressed by the author's galloping ego. Lucy irritates me endlessly. Her relationship with Kay bounces back and forth with remarkable clarity however. It's perhaps the most convincing relationship in the series. I hate Kay's affair with Benton Wesley with a passion. Not only is it contrived and embarrassing - how can he be so ethical and yet so base? It would have been far more interesting to team up Scarpetta and Marino. I love Marino. He's so real, I can practically see the egg stains on his tie. Benton, clearly modelled on John Douglas, the former charismatic head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, has lost something in the translation. He has become quite improbable since he took up with Kay. Why oh why did Cornwell bump off the boyfriend Mark? And this I think is the crux of the problem. Firstly, we are told of Mark's death in an earlier book - in the past tense! We are not allowed to really share her agony, even though we by now, care deeply about Kay Scarpetta. In Cause Of Death, Cornwell pulls the same stunt. We have to wait for nearly 100 pages to see Benton and Kay together - and we learn, they've been split up for months! Quite conveniently, Benton is getting a divorce - at his long suffering wife's request. I guess Cornwell got stung by so much criticism of the extra-marital affair. In the context of the books, it seems highly unlikely Connie Wesley would really run off with another man, but okay, I'll rent the idea for now. Still, the medical aspects of the books continue to inspire, in spite of the laughable, clunky final set pieces.. A nuclear power plant? Please! I miss the earlier Kay back in Richmond with her squirrel and no-life. This one is too Cosmo, too Rambo-lina. However, the earlier diving sequences are fun and the locations as usual, make me jealous as a writer. Cornwell has been there, done that. I can't wait for the next book
Not Cornwell's best, but still in there swinging.
I have read all of Cornwell's books and can now honestly say I am deeply depressed by the author's galloping ego. Lucy irritates me endlessly. Her relationship with Kay bounces back and forth with remarkable clarity however. It's perhaps the most convincing relationship in the series. I hate Kay's affair with Benton Wesley with a passion. Not only is it contrived and embarrassing - how can he be so ethical and yet so base? It would have been far more interesting to team up Scarpetta and Marino. I love Marino. He's so real, I can practically see the egg stains on his tie. Benton, clearly modelled on John Douglas, the former charismatic head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, has lost something in the translation. He has become quite improbable since he took up with Kay. Why oh why did Cornwell bump off the boyfriend Mark? And this I think is the crux of the problem. Firstly, we are told of Mark's death in an earlier book - in the past tense! We are not allowed to really share her agony, even though we by now, care deeply about Kay Scarpetta. In Cause Of Death, Cornwell pulls the same stunt. We have to wait for nearly 100 pages to see Benton and Kay together - and we learn, they've been split up for months! Quite conveniently, Benton is getting a divorce - at his long suffering wife's request. I guess Cornwell got stung by so much criticism of the extra-marital affair. In the context of the books, it seems highly unlikely Connie Wesley would really run off with another man, but okay, I'll rent the idea for now. Still, the medical aspects of the books continue to inspire, in spite of the laughable, clunky final set pieces.. A nuclear power plant? Please! I miss the earlier Kay back in Richmond with her squirrel and no-life. This one is too Cosmo, too Rambo-lina. However, the earlier diving sequences are fun and the locations as usual, make me jealous as a writer. Cornwell has been there, done that. I can't wait for the next book
Murder gets personal for Scarpetta
Cornwell's seventh Kay Scarpetta novel opens with Virginia State Pathologist Scarpetta insisting on a New Year's Eve dive in a frigid murky river where a diver's body has been found caught on a decommissioned sub in an unused Navy Yard. An odd hostility from local police and Navy officials only makes her more assertive and determined.
The diver is a journalist Scarpetta liked and the autopsy - colorfully described, as always - reveals murder. Scarpetta quickly finds herself and, inadvertently, her brilliant, difficult niece (a recent FBI graduate and computer wonder), in the center of a maelstrom of menace which soon includes her protective friend, police captain Pete Marino and her erstwhile, married lover, FBI brass Wesley Benton.
Meanwhile the journalist's apartment turns up an arsenal and a book - the "bible" of a right wing cult, full of recipes for murder and terrorism. Then another murder occurs, even closer to Scarpetta, and conspiracy and intimidation loom larger.
Cornwell's writing is vivid and Scarpetta is a prickly, sharp-edged heroine who exudes authority and keeps her private fears hidden. The story will keep you turning pages as Cornwell ratchets up the suspense but the explosive ending is jarringly sudden - never giving the reader much chance to put a human face on evil or comprehend its motives.
Still, this is Cornwell in her prime.