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Product Description
The world's bestselling crime author Patricia Cornwell presents an unusual novel in that Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a box that could hurt her professionally-and personally.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11149 in Books
- Published on: 2011-08-30
- Released on: 2011-08-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.10" h x 4.28" w x 7.45" l, .66 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 512 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Cornwell's constrained 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves a arch medical questioner in a box that's both inclusive in a inhabitant confidence implications and deeply personal. The story starts during a genuine Port Mortuary during Dover Air Force Base, where Scarpetta is aiding in building techniques for practical autopsies, afterwards shifts behind to her recently adopted home during Boston's Cambridge Forensic Center (CFC). A immature man's puzzling genocide becomes even foreigner after full-body scans exhibit drop so unconstrained it's as if a explosve went off inside his body. Scarpetta and father Benton Wesley-along with her niece, Lucy Farinelli, and ex-cop incited CFC questioner Pete Marino-discover links not usually to a supervision plan with a ability to means mass casualties nonetheless also to another gruesome box now underneath investigation. As Scarpetta's troops past rears a head, a romantic repairs a examination of a cases is firm to wreak on Cornwell's indifferent heroine will leave readers fervent for a subsequent installment. Long-time fans will acquire a lapse after a decade to a first-person exegesis with approach entrance to Scarpetta's thoughts.
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From Booklist
Cornwell earnings to form—somewhat—after a plodding Scarpetta Factor (2009). Told in a initial person, a story finds Kay Scarpetta, now a arch medical questioner of a new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, concerned in a integrate of cases: a puzzling remarkable genocide of a male and a murder of a child (whose confessed torpedo seems to be innocent). Soon she starts to consider a dual cases are related—joined by a square of high-tech hardware found in a initial victim’s apartment—and before too long, she realizes she’s confronting what could be her many crafty enemy yet. For a initial time in a while, Cornwell seems honestly meddlesome in Scarpetta again, giving a novel that hint of life that has done a array so beguiling for a many fans. The book is still a prolonged approach from a excellence days of Postmortem (1991) and From Potter’s Field (1995), nonetheless it’s really a step in a right direction. Series fans who have felt a bit let down of late will be pleased. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Print, radio, television, in-person, billboards, Twitter, Facebook, iPhone apps—about a usually thing Putnam isn’t doing to foster Cornwell’s latest is a graffiti campaign. --David Pitt
Review
'A stirring examination Best Long, succinct and brilliant...Cornwell, who has already won some-more prizes than we can shake a hang at, seems to be removing improved and improved City AM A retaining examination done some-more chilling by Cornwell's note that a sci-fi record she's describing indeed exists Metro A copious charity from one of crime fiction's many distinguished authors...arguably her many permitted book in some-more than a decade Hartford Books Examiner
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226 of 235 people found a following examination helpful.
By Barbi
After finding and ravenous Patricia Cornwell's "Postmortem" (now 20 years ago), my family and we have been outrageous fans of a Kay Scarpetta novels. Over a years, we energetically awaited a recover of Ms. Cornwell's subsequent novel, always assured that it would transcend her last. Until something altered and Ms. Cornwell forgot how to tell an engaging story. Instead of drifting facilely by her books, we now find myself slogging by them, descending defunct over them, yawning by unconstrained pages of dull fact and contemplative angst. we keep anticipating that a books will get better, nonetheless they don't. we gave adult median by "The Scarpetta Factor" (2009), nonetheless indeed examination all of "Port Mortuary" (2010). Like "The Scarpetta Factor," Ms. Cornwell's latest charity is a lush bore. This book facilities mysteries within mysteries that are not suggested until a sour end. By then, we didn't care. There's no suspense, no thrill, no passion. The characters that before had been drawn with such pointing and caring are now muted during best. Throughout a book, Kay can't figure out how to ask a approach doubt nor get a approach answer from anyone, including nonetheless not singular to Benton (her husband) and Lucy (her niece). That Kay clearly has so small self-respect that she would accept everyone's miss of blunt responses is totally discordant to her former strong, assured and able self. After finally (FINALLY!) reaching a finish of "Port Mortuary," we was nonplussed by a finish change of voice in a final few pages of a book. It's roughly as nonetheless Ms. Cornwell's editor compelled her to hook on a page or dual to make it seem that Kay has a essence after all. Ms. Cornwell, greatfully move behind a Kay Scarpetta we used to know and love!
311 of 327 people found a following examination helpful.
By madscientist_13
I am a prolonged time fan of Patricia Cornwell and we wait any year for my book to be delivered so that we can excavate behind into a universe of Scarpetta, Benton and Lucy. That being said, we was unhappy with this book. Disappointed in a approach that we can't utterly find difference for, that disturbs me greatly. we found it heavy, not in a good way, pedantic, bogged down by purposeless element that was during many times insignificant to a story line and a finale was in no approach a fortitude to a highlight between Benton and Scarpetta.
I do like a fact that a viewpoint switched behind to a initial chairman indicate of perspective by Scarpetta's eyes since we consider all should be noticed by her eyes a approach they once were. we also suspicion it was good to gleam a magnitude of light on topics that frequency get talked about in fiction. All of this said, we was still vexed by this book since we know how most improved a Scarpetta books can be and we only had a tough time with this book as a whole. And as a final note, we know that hardcore Scarpetta fans will not be deterred only as we wouldn't have been since we only had to know myself, nonetheless that said, we found a humanity, a relations and a simple substructure that creates a array so good to me lacking in this novel.
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By Teresa3607
I've been a Scarpetta fan for several years, nonetheless a final few books have been a genuine widen of a imagination. The scholarship is brilliant, a essay is superb, nonetheless we can no longer find any magnetism for a characters. There is no passion between Scarpetta and Benton. Scarpetta does not seem to be fast and we fear that a subsequent book will have her tip over a corner and truly turn a antagonist. In Port Mortuary, she's altered jobs and locales nonetheless again and a dark section of her past is revealed. This is too fantastic for my imagination, essentially since if this had been such a scarring knowledge for Scarpetta it seems that is should have been during slightest alluded to in one of a progressing books.
This will be a final Scarpetta book that we read. Sadly, a Kay Scarpetta we desired no longer exists.
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