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Predator (Hardcover)

by Patricia Cornwell (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown (31 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316724211
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316724210
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 195,904 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Cornwell still does it better than anyone else' Daily Mail 'Cornwell's books run on high octane fuel, a cocktail of adrenalin and fear. Black Notice is no exception' The Times

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Florida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her. And in Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups. The Academy is called when a woman's body is found in Boston. She has been tortured, sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy had seen on the flesh of her latest pick-up. Meanwhile, Scarpetta and Marino are investigating the disappearance of a family in Florida, called in by a concerned neighbour, but as they search and find the tell-tale signs of abduction rather than disappearance, they also discover that someone had assumed the identity of the caller, and she is now dead. They've been set up, and it becomes clear that someone is tracking their every move.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars not the best ....but not the worst, 4 April 2006
By Hugh Sutherland "hughs1206" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator (Paperback)
Thankfully better than her last two offerings but still no hint of returning to her former glory. As always the forensic and scientific detail are finely tuned and informative and there is a steady, if not slightly boring at times, pace

My biggest problems with Predator, and indeed Trace and Blowfly, were that i was completely indifferent as to what was happening, I just didn't care. The second is that, it's not the fact that Cornwell has switched from writing in the first to third person, but that we are now forced to spend time with charcters that are truly insufferable and who, as characters, haven't developed in any way, shape or form since the beginning, inparticular Lucy and Marino.
I'm a huge Cornwell fan and can only hope that things will get better.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What has happened to Cornwell?, 6 May 2006
By wordforword (Northumberland, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Predator (Paperback)
I have been a devotee of Patricia Cornwell since she first started writing the Scarpetta series. Her last two books, "Blow Fly" and "Trace" have, in my opinion, gone off the boil. With "Predator" it doesn't even reach a simmer! To start with, she continues writing in the present tense. I find this supremely irritating and I wish she would stop doing it. The plot is scrappy and over complicated. I'm one of these tiresome people who have to finish a book once I've started it. I have never been more glad than when, last night, I closed the final page of this lacklustre book. By then I couldn't have given a toss about who did what to whom, or why. If there was a "No star" category, that's where this would have gone.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Serves me right!, 3 Feb 2007
By Anck Su Namin (The Seething Metropolis , UK) - See all my reviews
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I keep buying these books in the hope that there will be a return to form but I am always disappointed. This one is the worst by far. We are now asked to stretch out imaginations to the point that Lucy is richer than Bill Gates and has a highly sophisticated computer network that the US Government, never mind the myriad super-hackers out there, have no idea exists. She then leaves the whole thing wide open without anyone noticing the breach for months. In reality the Marino phone tapping would have been noticed by any cheap call logging system, let alone Demi-God Lucy. Do some research Patricia!

Secondly, I found the resurrection of Benton Wesley tiresome when it happened, as it was so clearly a case of major backtracking once Cornwell realised that she actually needed him to pad out the stories quite a bit. Now we are supposed to believe that she and the so-called love of her life live mostly apart, communicate by email and nearly seperate when the child-from-hell Lucy comes between them, despite her 'burying' him once.

Thirdly, I just don't buy into the Marino falling-out. They have been close for years, with some unrequited feelings on Marino's side, and yet we are asked to believe that they fall out over a simple mistake on Marino's part. His transformation to pretendy hells angel doesn't work either.

The last few pages are rushed and laughable, and leave the reader feeling cheated out of a fiver. Avoid!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Patricia Cornwell - Predator
This is the 14th Kay Scarpetta book from Cornwell and you'd think that the supposed 'Queen of the Forensic Thriller' would by now only be churning out 5 star reads. Read more
Published 3 months ago by molko

1.0 out of 5 stars Implausable, boring, ambivalent, waste of money


I read through PC's early Scarpetta novels very quickly and was desperate to get Predator when it came out. Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Robinson

3.0 out of 5 stars An improvement on the last one, but only just
For long standing Cornwell fans this book isn't going to raise your spirits; as a series it's still marching downhill and I'm not sure how much more mileage there is left. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Net

1.0 out of 5 stars Lost its way
Having read every book Ms Cornwell has published, I felt dutifully compelled to buy her most recent Scarpetta novel - Predator, despite being disappointed recently with a change... Read more
Published 22 months ago by J. Addison

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Cornwell
I have been a huge Cornwell fan for years but am wholly disappointed with the lastest offering. I've had it since it was first published in paperback but put off reading it... Read more
Published 22 months ago by J. Cooke

2.0 out of 5 stars Predator
The plot in this Scarpetta novel is actually fair but again Cornwell's new writing style kills it. It's cold, distant, uninvolving. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Rich

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful!!
What absolute drivel - I read the early Scarpetta books and they were excellent, so what has happened? Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. Judith Lugg

1.0 out of 5 stars Ho-Hum
I realise a lot of other people have said this, but Patricia Cornwall was one of my favourite writers. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Dayglo

4.0 out of 5 stars Corwell, better or worse
I have only recently started reading the Kay Scarpetta series but I quickly became hooked and had to read one after the other, however with her last couple of books, particularly... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2007 by Samantha Stevens

5.0 out of 5 stars Cornwell redeems herself!
Despite the many negative reviews I think Cornwell redeemed herself with this novel.

It's still not written in the earlier styles but I have got used to it now. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2007 by Marley T

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