by Patricia Cornwell
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by Patricia Cornwell
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by Patricia Cornwell
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by Patricia Cornwell
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by Patricia Cornwell
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Dr Kay Scarpetta should be celebrating New Year's Eve with her niece Lucy, instead she's diving in the murky waters of a Naval shipyard to examine a body. A suspicious drowning, another autopsy for Virginia's chief medical examiner in this, the seventh in the series. Then a murder finds her staking her life on convincing a sect of besieged nuclear terrorists that their dead prophet is still breathing, while computer-genius niece Lucy and trusty police captain Marino organize an explosive rescue. Forensic pathology and high technology for Cornwell fans, a hint of emotional formula beginning to creep in. (Kirkus UK)
The fascination with monstrous evil that's run through Cornwell's recent work (From Potter's Field, 1995, etc.) blossoms with a vengeance when Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called out on New Year's Eve to examine the body of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter killed during an unauthorized dive in Norfolk's Inactive Naval Ship Yard. The typically arresting opening sequences - which take Scarpetta from beneath the icy waters of the Elizabeth River to the morgue, where she makes a shocking discovery about the manner of Eddings's death - masterfully set up all the conflicts that follow, from Scarpetta's instant antipathy to the Chesapeake police detective who'll end up lodging a sexual harassment complaint against her to her uneasy examination of the Book of Hand, the Bible of radical New Zionist messiah Joel Hand. And the momentum builds through a second murder, as usual unnervingly close to Scarpetta (has any series heroine ever survived so many deaths by proxy?). It's not till Scarpetta joins her brainy FBI niece Lucy and her tormented FBI lover Benton Wesley, who's leaving his wife but still can't commit himself to Scarpetta, to run the New Zionists' nefarious, incredible plot to ground and flush them out of their hidey-hole that Cornwell's apocalyptic moralizing turns shrill and unconvincing. Full marks, as always, for the gripping forensic detail and beleaguered Scarpetta's legendary toughness. It's only the sketchy, unbelievable villains who ring hollow. (Kirkus Reviews)
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'Ingenious, persuasive and unsettling' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Dr Kay Scarpetta should be celebrating New Year's Eve with her niece Lucy, instead she's diving in the murky waters of a Naval shipyard to examine a body. A suspicious drowning, another autopsy for Virginia's chief medical examiner in this, the seventh in the series. Then a murder finds her staking her life on convincing a sect of besieged nuclear terrorists that their dead prophet is still breathing, while computer-genius niece Lucy and trusty police captain Marino organize an explosive rescue. Forensic pathology and high technology for Cornwell fans, a hint of emotional formula beginning to creep in. (Kirkus UK)
The fascination with monstrous evil that's run through Cornwell's recent work (From Potter's Field, 1995, etc.) blossoms with a vengeance when Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called out on New Year's Eve to examine the body of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter killed during an unauthorized dive in Norfolk's Inactive Naval Ship Yard. The typically arresting opening sequences - which take Scarpetta from beneath the icy waters of the Elizabeth River to the morgue, where she makes a shocking discovery about the manner of Eddings's death - masterfully set up all the conflicts that follow, from Scarpetta's instant antipathy to the Chesapeake police detective who'll end up lodging a sexual harassment complaint against her to her uneasy examination of the Book of Hand, the Bible of radical New Zionist messiah Joel Hand. And the momentum builds through a second murder, as usual unnervingly close to Scarpetta (has any series heroine ever survived so many deaths by proxy?). It's not till Scarpetta joins her brainy FBI niece Lucy and her tormented FBI lover Benton Wesley, who's leaving his wife but still can't commit himself to Scarpetta, to run the New Zionists' nefarious, incredible plot to ground and flush them out of their hidey-hole that Cornwell's apocalyptic moralizing turns shrill and unconvincing. Full marks, as always, for the gripping forensic detail and beleaguered Scarpetta's legendary toughness. It's only the sketchy, unbelievable villains who ring hollow. (Kirkus Reviews)
Literary Review
'Ingenious, persuasive and unsettling' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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