Trace

This is absolutely the worst written book by what I consider a very talented author. Not sure if she was in a burn/out stage or had just inhaled too many Formaldehyde fumes… Not her best by a long shot.

The book gets bogged down with too many characters until its hard to keep up with them. And unless you have read the other books, you don\’t know who some of them are. Plus it is not a stand a lone book. There are cliff hangers. I prefer stand alone books

It seems that it was necessary to have read a previous book in the series to understand what is going on, but eventually explained., I enjoyed some of the earlier Scarpetta books but the angst, political intrigues, super woman, loving a man who doesn\’t seem to lover back just became too much., Haven\’t read one of her books in years and this edition reminded me why., The niece grows stranger than ever and Scarpetta continues to be constantly frustrated with her antics let alone her super powers let and fantastic wealth. All of this wrapped around her FBI lover in the mountains with a young psycho woman that isn\’t explained until close to the end. I almost didn\’t finish the book just to find out what would happen. This will probably be completely answered in a forthcoming book.

The plot of every one of these stories has become Kay, Benton, Lucy and/or Pete being threatened, injured, etc., etc. Has long since stopped being about solving or preventing a murder. Just can\’t allow her characters to have any positive experiences–I guess she doesn\’t have many herself and therefore doesn\’t know how to write them. I don\’t like \”romance\” books where heroines get carried off by a muscular hunk; but surely there must be some middle ground between that and books that make me ask why I\’m bothering to get out of bed in the morning because life is so dark.

*A compelling thriller by author Patricia Cornwall, featuring one of her infamous charachters, Dr. Kay Scarpetta!!…….Arriving in Richmond, Virginia, after five long years former Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta still felt hurt and shunned by a city she once loved and respected only to have them turn their backs on her. Relocating to South Florida five years later, Kay is more than surprised when she receives a phone call from her successor requesting her help to consult on a bazaar murder case involving the death of a fourteen-year old girl. Deciding to freelance by offering any assistance she can give, Kay is not only met with a cold resistance by the newly-appointed Chie, she found herself investigating another murder with the same exact similarities including the same type of trace evidence in which was discovered with the fourteen-year old, Gilly Paulson. Needing the help from an old friend, Kay enlists the help from former Capt. Pete Marino, and together they both tried to unravel each murder by the trace evidence leading them both with horrifying results. Refusing to believe that the medical examiner\’s office in Richmond truly wanted or needed Kay\’s expert opinion on each murder, former F.B.I.special agent Benton Wesley, was totally convinced that Kay was being set up by her jealous and arrogant successor to make her appear more incompetant and foolish in the public\’s eye, and if his life depended on it, he would no doubt prove it to her. As Kay and Marino continued their investiagation they soon discovered that their two cases they were currently working on had a strong and distinct connection to Kay\’s niece Lucy, and possibly Benton too but when they dig even deeper in each homicide, Kay and Marino ended up speechless when they learn that the killer had a whole different motive altogether. As they probe even deeper, Kay and Marino are not only stunned by their discovery and the killer\’s true target but nothing could prepare them both when they learn the shocking truth and the powerful link between Richmond and South Florida, knocking them both flat on their backs!….a great thriller!..thank you..

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