Scarpetta is finally getting her much needed rest!
So sad, so very sad to see all the 1 star's. Not every book has to be totally about Kay Scarpetta. You also don't need to be so serious in every book that is writen. It is good to laugh and this...
I have been a huge fan of Patricia Cornwall. This book, however, seems to have been written by an entirely different person. Filled with annoying, unrelated, wandering detail, it's the worst kind...
Cornwell over whelmed me with all of the new characters that she has woven into her story. Her plot is a serial killer, the Black Widow, who focuses on out-of-town businessmen. Cornwell became side...
How can a Patricia Cornwell book be this bad? I couldn't believe it, and then I decided I DIDN'T believe it. I should have believed it. Reading "Southern Cross" is like watching a psychopathic...
What is up with all these horrible review's with this book? I am glad that I listened to my gut feeling instead of the 1 star reviewer's This is a change from super woman Scarpetta, and change is...
Let's see -- I thought that the book was enjoyable, an easy read. It reflects some of the needless frustrations of administering the city. Ms. Cornwell has good information here.
Wow, maybe the other reviewers read a diferent book than I did. This is actually my favorite Cornwell novel. It is not a mystery and Kay Scarpetta has only a cameo role in it. Suspend belief and...
This was a comedy? I honestly couldn't even tell it was supposed to be...it made me think of something a 6th grader would have written in Creative Writing. I have no idea who the hero or villain...
Cornwell gives the reader an interesting conflict between the governor of the state and its citizens. On Virginia's Isle of Tangeir the people revolt. The public must be protected from all the...
Wow, maybe the other reviewers read a diferent book than I did. This is actually my favorite Cornwell novel. It is not a mystery and Kay Scarpetta has only a cameo role in it. Suspend belief and...
This was a comedy? I honestly couldn't even tell it was supposed to be...it made me think of something a 6th grader would have written in Creative Writing. I have no idea who the hero or villain...
Cornwell gives the reader an interesting conflict between the governor of the state and its citizens. On Virginia's Isle of Tangeir the people revolt. The public must be protected from all the...
Boring. Predictable. Unfinished. In the end, too many unresolved issues that at one time in the book were critical and all-consuming. This was a book I simply struggled to pick back up. It took...
I am an avid fan of Patricia Cornwell and have never read a Kay Scarpetta mystery I didn't like and this includes my most recent purchase Point of Origin. A fast-paced, page turner I completely...
The large number of reviews previously posted for Point of Origin sum up the majority of my disappointments with the book. Scarpetta is a basket case throughout the book, is totally obsessed with...
Wonderful book for children, I enjoyed it myself. The picture's are beautiful, and I think adults enjoy it as much as the children do. Could you do some more childrens book's?
I am very well-versed in Children's Literature and find this book a huge disappointment. While the art work is lovely, the story line is so vague and abstract, an adult can barely follow what the...
If you are a PC superfan I am sure you will like this book. It would make a great gift. I was not inspired by it, or the recipes and I actually like the Kay Scarpetta books. As a gift, great, as a...
Patricia Cornwell makes some interesting observations and has definately convinced me that Walter Sickert was a strange and morbid man who most probably had a fascination with Jack the Ripper...
I enjoyed this book tremendously. But if you're looking for one scientific fact that will nail Sickert as the Ripper, you'll be disappointed. After all, the science that we enjoy today didn't exist...
There's one key problem to Patricia Cornwell's JACK THE RIPPER: CASE CLOSED book...she forgot that people just don't want the mystery and legend to be definitively solved. In a day and age where...
I found these stories lacking. My sister has the unabridged version and she says they are much better. My advise is to be careful and buy only unabridged versions.
I didn't listen to the book because it was abridged. I detest abridged books so I gave it away. Next time I will be more careful about what I buy, and examine the fine print before purchasing.
My first foray into this writer was her latest book, Scarpetta. I enjoyed it....so I purchased this effort and several others she had written. I was a bit disheartened to find that all of her books...
I'm an audio book fan, I prefer unabridge and this was abridge and the story just doesn't flow. All of a sudden your in one area and then jump to another. Second, if your downloading to an...
Cornwell didn't keep you guessing long in this one. After you knew the murderer it took all of the suspense away. This is not one of Cornwall's best stories. What about Marino and some of the...
I read all the so-called "classics"(IE Tropic Of Cancer","Atlas Shrugged" etc.-etc.) years ago. I would not have the patience for those books now.For me,a novel has to be fast-paced and...
This was an entertaining book, but definitely not one of her best. The characters didn't feel real somehow, and although the story line had good possibilities, somehow it never came to much in the...
First of all I admit I have never read a Cornwell Book before. I was given this book as a gift. I was only able to get halfway thru the book and I just had to give up. I had no idea what was...
As a reader, I'm very fond of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and glad to see that she's getting her new practice going in Charleston, and that she and her long-time love, forensic psychiatrist Benton Wesley,...
For my sins, I read many of the reviews AFTER I had finished reading the book, and found them to be unbelievable Granted, my copy is a new one, so perhaps it has been reedited, but I don't know...
I just finished this book and I've decided to not continue reading the Scarpetta series. I started at the beginning several months ago, and while I liked some of the books, I never really warmed...
I enjoyed Blow Fly. I know the perspective was different, but I thought it allowed the author to be able to step out from the characters and look on them from above. Thus, allowing for much more...
It had been a long time since I had read a Patricia Cornwell book, and I missed many of books this one refers back to. I thought the criticism of book was over done. But some of what is gone into...
This is my first Scarpetta book and I must say that it was absolutely awful. Some of the scenes were disgusting/explicit. The book had a dark tone and it focused on the main characters lives a...
I'm lukewarm on the subject of this book, Predator. It's got some really interesting plot twists, but they mostly happen in about the last few minutes of the audiotape, which I assume is the last...
All the characters in this novel are continuously, gratuitously belligerent. It's one big block of road rage. Kay swears at Marino; Kay yells at her niece; Kay's niece yells back; Marino calls...
Although I've enjoyed each of the Patricia Cornwell novels I've read, I was disappointed at the ending of "Black Notice." I really like the character of Kay Scarpetta and the forensic science in...
Scarpetta does not find answers to questions she has on the autopsy she has preformed, no name and no cause of death. Scarpetta does have her personal effects and a strange tattoo that stirs her...
All the characters in this novel are continuously, gratuitously belligerent. It's one big block of road rage. Kay swears at Marino; Kay yells at her niece; Kay's niece yells back; Marino calls...
Although I've enjoyed each of the Patricia Cornwell novels I've read, I was disappointed at the ending of "Black Notice." I really like the character of Kay Scarpetta and the forensic science in...
Scarpetta does not find answers to questions she has on the autopsy she has preformed, no name and no cause of death. Scarpetta does have her personal effects and a strange tattoo that stirs her...
As a CA native, I wasn't aware of the history of the islands in the Chesapeake Bay area. I found this book hilarious! I laughed out loud often and couldn't control my giggles with the "submarine"...
I can say that it is a very rare occasion when I do not finish anything I start. Except this time. I could not believe that an author I have enjoyed in the past would write a book that was so...
Cornwell gives the reader an interesting conflict between the governor of the state and its citizens. On Virginia's Isle of Tangeir the people revolt. The public must be protected from all the...
I love forensic science mysteries and used to be a big fan of this series. I hadn't read a Scarpetta novel in a while since the last few I read weren't as good as the earlier books in the series. I...
It's the narrator that makes Patricia Cornwell palatable
I've read a few Scarpetta novels over the years and am always always always left very disappointed. I haven't quite figured out why I kept thinking things would get better with Cornwell's books and...
I have been an avid reader of the Scarpetta Series by Patricia Cornwell. Ms. Cornwell is my absolute favorite writer. I have already read TRACE and am presently reading PREDATOR. Once a book is...
First off I've got to say: I didn't *hate* Blowfly or Trace -- even though the part about Benton's 'death' was pretty riduculous. I mean, if your loved-one kicked the bucket, and then you later...
I picked this book up at a discount store - I was very surprised to find these here. Now I understand why. I was disappointed with the last two Kay Scarpetta novels. It took me abouut half the...
First off I've got to say: I didn't *hate* Blowfly or Trace -- even though the part about Benton's 'death' was pretty riduculous. I mean, if your loved-one kicked the bucket, and then you later...
I picked this book up at a discount store - I was very surprised to find these here. Now I understand why. I was disappointed with the last two Kay Scarpetta novels. It took me abouut half the...
This was such a waste of my precious time. Badly written and boring. It had forensic details that made the book/series unique. I wouldn't ever read her books again.
Scarpetta has a killer with a deep-seated hostility that is directed at her. He has used a rare virsus to kill his victim. Has Scarpetta been infected? This is one of her fastest moving novels that...
I've been reading the Kay Scarpetta series in order from book one, and if you are reading the series, by all means don't skip this one. That said, I got lost in some of the forensic details, I'm...
First off I've got to say: I didn't *hate* Blowfly or Trace -- even though the part about Benton's 'death' was pretty riduculous. I mean, if your loved-one kicked the bucket, and then you later...
I picked this book up at a discount store - I was very surprised to find these here. Now I understand why. I was disappointed with the last two Kay Scarpetta novels. It took me abouut half the...
Patricia Cornwell makes some interesting observations and has definately convinced me that Walter Sickert was a strange and morbid man who most probably had a fascination with Jack the Ripper...
I enjoyed this book tremendously. But if you're looking for one scientific fact that will nail Sickert as the Ripper, you'll be disappointed. After all, the science that we enjoy today didn't exist...
There's one key problem to Patricia Cornwell's JACK THE RIPPER: CASE CLOSED book...she forgot that people just don't want the mystery and legend to be definitively solved. In a day and age where...
Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series continues to keep the readers on their toes in this story dealing with limited evidence and lots of excitement,
At first the book was hard to get into. After that I could not put it down. I think it is one of her best she has written. I would recommend it to anyone that likes a good mystery. so go ahead and...
Mediocre writing produces an unimpressive whodunit.
Kay Scarpetta. Richmond's Chief Medical Examiner, with a full house, and a lot of unsolved homicides. Among other things, she's a part of an ongoing investigation which seems to have no end in...
Slow & Steady Doesn't Win The Race In This Yawner!
I've heard good things about the Kay Scarpetta series but this introduction to the character didn't really show me much. I was underwhelmed by the "drama" and all the characters seemed very...
This is a good page-turner but, like her other mysteries, it lacks the complex substance that is the glue to put it all together. It lacks depth and richness and is a little too deus ex...
I have been wanting to pick up a Cornwell book for a while now. I decided to start with the first book of the series and if I liked it I would go from there. Would it be to obvious to say that I...
Thin story and book - s/b be called a novella or short story
Very very disappointed. I've read the other low rated reviews and agree with every one of them, adding that to push this book as a novel is to do a disservice to all continuing great authers who...
Overall I thought this was a really good book. It's great to see Cornwell work with some new characters. She is such a great writer, and I'm glad she is demonstrating her range. The format was a...
I keep buying Patricia Cornwell books hoping for the author who wrote such great books like the Body Farm. The book was very short (i should have checked the page count before i purchased) and not...
First of all I admit I have never read a Cornwell Book before. I was given this book as a gift. I was only able to get halfway thru the book and I just had to give up. I had no idea what was...
As a reader, I'm very fond of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and glad to see that she's getting her new practice going in Charleston, and that she and her long-time love, forensic psychiatrist Benton Wesley,...
For my sins, I read many of the reviews AFTER I had finished reading the book, and found them to be unbelievable Granted, my copy is a new one, so perhaps it has been reedited, but I don't know...
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