Black Notice

The story is ridiculous, the characters unbelievable and unlikable, none more so than Marino and supergirl – niece Lucy. How a well known, respected author could write something this bad is unbelievable in it\’s own right. I gave it two stars because at some point it became so humorous i was beginning to enjoy it for all the wrong reasons. I couldn\’t wait to see how she ended this mess. Needless to say, the ending was as silly as the rest of the book.

Called to one of the most horrific crime scenes ever, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, tried to hold it together as she surveyed her surroundings. Not only was her personal life in total shambles after recently losing the love of her life, Benton Wesley but her professional life was waivering also. Although she didn\’t know it, but her next case and the crime scene before her would change everything, regarding herself and others close to her. Entering a huge container, Kay found a badly decomposed body and it will not only cause alarming questions with a diabolical aftermath, but where it leads will make it even more terrifying. While in the middle of the autopsy, Kay had discovered quite a few things, but first, she had to figure out who was trying to ruin her. She not only had a traitor in her midst and under her employ, but someone was impersonating her on the internet, but who? Who had it out for her? Who wanted her fired in the worst way? One of her employees? One of her peers? Her enemies? She hadn\’t a clue but she was determined to find out. After pointing her in the right direction, Kay was once again joined by homicide detective Pete Marino, and as always, they went where the evidence led them, in this case Paris, France. When more murders are committed both in France and the States, Kay and Marino head back home to Virginia, but when death knocks on Kay\’s front door, she looks through the peephole and sees the eyes of pure evil and cold calculation. Will Marino get to her in time?…………thank you…..♡♡

This book started good, slowed then a slice and ended with hope. As an officer personally, this particular case made good points most don\’t see it take into consideration and ending on a major point. Different kind of case but Cornwell ties things in nicely in her books. I enjoy her books because I hold multiple degrees and have a wide variety of experience that her character\’s resonate with at times and remind me of particular terms, actions or things learned early on in my career. Even being in this type of profession the books give me a reprieve from the real life unbelievable situations.

What I didn\’t like was the fact, that IMHO, one of the main persons, in this book was more or less left out…That is, details, as to his thoughts, motives, what made him the was he was…there are IMHO, a vageness, about the \’wolf-man\”, that should have been included… If any one has ever read \”THEWATCHER\”, by Dean Koontz, will understand what I\’m trying to point out…his \”MONSTER\”, was given, feelings it expressed, how it felt, why it was angery, in short, he had substance, you couldn\’t help but \”feel\”, for the poor thing…this was missing here….another charector in the book, her motives, were never made clear, either, before she was \’rubbed out\’, near the books end…..she was nasty, but I never grasped her true motives or reasons for being that way.. I think/ believe, more defining, of the story line was needed…I truly felt let down, at the ending..

This is the tenth Kay Scarpetta novel, and it might be time for Cornwell to move in a new direction. The early books were made compelling by the science of the medical examiner, solving crimes based on clues found on the bodies – trace fibers and hairs and intriguing wounds. However, the series has devolved into a Kay Scarpetta pity-party. This seems like about the fourth or fifth book in a row where Kay\’s deep and traumatic emotional life pretty much drives the story. The monstrous villain with the one-in-a-billion medical disorder is not new, nor are the attacks on Kay\’s house and office. But her constant whining about her emotional distress, the erosion of the Lucy character to nothing but a gun-and-an-attitude, and the cut-and-paste story line make for pretty tedious reading. Worst of all, the autopsy scenes around which the early stories pivoted have now become mere sidelines, tasks that Kay must perform between her breathless rasslin\’ matches with the bad guy and her teary memories of Benton. The Scarpetta series is stale, Cornwell needs to move on to a new theme. I\’ve read my final Kay Scarpetta story.

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