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The Bone Bed: Scarpetta, Book 20 (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Patricia Cornwell (Author), Lorelei King (Narrator)

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Listening Length: 10 hours and 54 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: AudioGO Ltd
Audible.co.uk Release Date: 25 Oct 2012
Language: English
ASIN: B009WHFYUI

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The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number-one best-selling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold.

A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino and FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time - against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Patricia Cornwell Back to her Best 19 Oct 2012

By ACB (swansea) TOP 50 REVIEWER

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This is a captivating novel, arriving earlier than expected and disrupting sleep pattern. The reason is that it keeps the suspense and interest flowing throughout. Wanting to know the next point of thrilling tension locks the reader in. Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta is right back into the heady throws of drama and investigative forensic science. A mysterious e-mail and video arrive taunting her to examine the case of a palaentologist who is missing and later found dead in Alberta studying a dinosaur bed of bones. Kay finds this is just a link with other sinister and macabre murders that point to a relentless killer. Descriptions of discovery and circumstances of the fatalities are for Kay to find out. These are not without danger. They take her on her many travels. Unravelling the bodies found in peculiar situations (attached to a turtle, pulled out of rivers), puts out the scent of something more sinister.The author's strength and ability is something we expect and have awaited without disappointment.

Meanwhile, partner Marino seems to have resorted to an alcoholic relapse of bizarre vodka drinking allied to a new investigative approach. FBI husband Benton gives out signals he has a new aquaintance. Niece Lucy continues with her data skills but is behaving oddly, puzzled, keeping secrets from her aunt and talking in an uncharacteristic way. Is there something amiss? Where has she acquired an expensive piece of jewellry from? These all add to the relentless exploration of the main protagonist's pursuit of the truth, adding to the main narrative. Kay turns to an old psychologist friend, Anna Zenna, for support in her troubles. Who is the villain and why?

This is a compulsive novel and difficult to put down. It keeps the momentum and pace running at catch-up speed from the opening. I enjoyed her last novel but this is a step-up to Scarpetta at her best and hence Patricia Cornwell back to high spirits. A joy to read and difficult not to award top marks.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Last one for me 5 Dec 2012

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With apologies to all Patricia Cornwell fans I did not enjoy this at all. This is one in a series of Kay Scarpetta books. Scarpetta is supposed to be a forensic genius but there was not a lot of that genius on show in this near 11 hour audio book.

The story was padded out with over blown flowery descriptions of nearly everything that it was possible to mention. At one point in the book there was a remark that a picture is worth a thousand words. I am sure Ms Cornwell believes that and wrote many thousands of unnecessary words in this audio book.

There was no direction to the plot and it seemed secondary to the ups and downs of the relationships between the main characters. Finally with the last CD of ten just about to end the murderer was revealed. This was not by any detective or forensic work but by an improbable set of circumstances set up by Scarpetta's incredible niece who just happens to be brilliant, owns a estate and mansion, a twin rotor helicopter, rides Harley Davidsons and also happens to have a few Italian supercars on hand and is a lesbian. After this improbable ruse the story just then fizzled out and I then decided that this was the last Patricia Cornwell for me.

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Truthfully Amazing! 18 Oct 2012

By Miss Ava Greenall

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Imagine a stressed, mother of five, switching on her Kindle and spotting the latest Patricia Cornwell novel has downloaded days before it was meant to! My jaw dropped and all previously arranged appointments were cancelled..and then a small nagging voice(my own not a small childs)whispered "what if you don't like it?"..

I shouldn't have worried. Scarpetta 20 is wonderful! The story, written in the first person, is tightly plotted and feels reminiscent of Postmortem. Each of the now familiar main protagonists Kay, Benton, Marino and Lucy were all there and love em or hate em were all back to the way I remember them from years gone by.

The story focuses on the mysterious disapearance of a female palaeontologist, which is brought to the attention of Kay Scarpetta by an anonymous email with an attached clip of a video showing, amongst other things, a bloody human dismembered ear sitting on a page of newspaper.

As the story progresses we watch Scarpetta retrieve a body from the sea that had become entangled with a Turtle(a dying species),battle with the bureaucracy of the US legal system, fight the age old female problem of becoming older and less physically attractive(at least in our minds!)and grapple with all the new forensic techniques that enable her to listen to what the dead have to say.

Scarpetta has become happier(shes cooking again,hurrah!!)and less introspective which gives this whole book a lift and I couldn't put it down.

I just want to thank Patricia, for ignoring as much of the criticism that has been thrown at her in recent years as possible, and that you have carried on writting through it all. Reading this I can see that you have taken on board some of the more constructive criticism that fans have been able to offer and then produce this wonderful piece of writting.

I'm sure others will produce a far more eloquent synopsis of this book but I really have to say that after staying up all night reading The Bone Bed I thoroughly loved it! The most fun i've had between the sheets in along time!

Well Done and Thankyou, Ava x

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I ordered a book and amazingly that is what I got! Delivered on time and in great condition. Can't comment on content as gift.

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