Livid: The new Kay Scarpetta thriller from the No.1 bestseller

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Then to make matters worse, Cornwell doesn’t really provide any sense of redemption or closure for Kay. When she and her longtime friend and investigator Pete Marino arrive, they're struck by the stricken; everywhere are dead bugs, birds and what appears to be finely tuned destruction. Scarpetta finds herself in the middle of one of the most challenging cases of her career, which only adds to the intrigue. While I disagree with her choice of villains, good guys, and the whole misinformation hype, long-time fans--and I am one-will appreciate the specs and technical explanation of a new weapon, the Virginia-DC axis, the dynamic of Marino now married to Scarpetta's sister, and an element at which Cornwell outshines virtually all other authors--that of the added conflict of job-related betrayals.

Deshalb kann ich trotzdem ruhigen Gewissens eine Leseempfehlung für das amerikanische Original geben. That these easter eggs are meaningless and even befuddling to new readers might make sense in terms of costs and benefits.In the process of unraveling the incident, various personalities of the characters will be revealed. At that time, I was more than willing to let Kate and her family of supporting characters ride off into the sunset because the books had gotten very formula-matic and repetitive. After a grueling cross-examination by the prosecutor, Scarpetta leaves the court only to discover that the sister of the judge on her case has been found dead.

This can be an effective storytelling device, but in this case, waiting for the private investigator heroine to get to where the reader is at the beginning of the story feels interminable. It will take everything in her being to keep Kay Scarpetta from letting justice be perverted, though everything comes together to unveil the truth about another crime that has haunted her for the past few years.Kellerman and Sandford had a couple of books late in the series that I guess felt slightly off to me, so I stopped for a bit.