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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Review: I brought this book on vacation with me to read back and forth on the plane, let me tell you I had to by another book in the airport on the way home. I could not put this book down for two days. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Every time I thought I knew who the killer was she threw a new twist at me. And then she really got me because you don't find out till the last possible second. That's what I call a good mystery.
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Summary: It held my interest from beginning to end.
Review: Patricia Cornwall always writes with such enthusiasim for her subject, that her books are almost impossible to put down. Spellbinding and never a dull moment.
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Summary: Good!
Review: My first Kay Scarpetta novel! I thought it was good
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Summary: Classic Patricia Cornwell
Review: This was a great, attention holding story. The story has twists and turns and is just fascinating.
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Summary: so - so
Review: first i have to say this is the first book i have read of PC. I was ready to dive into a new author. the story was awesome, the plot thickened, people she knew were getting killed and she id to blame, so it looked then....the killer was WHO? he wasnt introduced until the end of the book - i felt it was a poor ending and i was very disappointed when read who DUNIT! i can understand the reason Jennifer had to die but why Heath and where is Ben????? a lot of loose ends i thought. i am going to read another and thenmake my judgement of her as a writer it was nailbiting until the last 3 pages. Lucy seems like a whiney brat.
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Summary: Blah...
Review: I must have missed something... reading "Cruel and Unusual" and "The Alienist" at the same time, C&E wasn't remotely in the latter's league. They aren't even playing the same sport. I knew when I picked it up that C&E would be pulp entertainment and nothing more, but I'm still disappointed. The plot was reasonably interesting but the way that everything fell so neatly into place at the end seemed forced. What passed for character development was more like being beat over the head with a ten-pound hammer: we know that Kay is cold and detached, that Lucy needs to be loved, and so on. I knew it the first time Cornwell told me. To tell -- not show -- me again and again, always in the same exact way, the same conversations, made me roll my eyes with boredom. Plus, the characters were so one-dimensional, I just didn't care. Ultimately, though, you read a mystery novel for the mystery, and I just didn't find it that interesting. The killer was boring and came out of the blue, the twists not particularly interesting, and the villains, such as they were, not particularly villainous. All in all, a decent read but not much more. I went in looking for fluff, and came away a bit disappointed.
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Summary: Easily her best book
Review: Extraordinarily clever, exciting, fast-moving, gruesome and scary, this is a book you can't put down right from page one. I will never forget this book, easily the most memorable out of the seven pc books I have read. Dr Scapetta, in her fourth book, faces the most bizzare of her many challenges yet. Ronnie Joe Waddell is executed and then his fingerprint turns up at the scene of Eddie Heath's murder several hours later. Eventually, with the help of pete Marino, Benton Wesley and Lucy, she finds the killer, but not without her whole reputation being almost ruined. If you've never read any of Pc's books you HAVE TO read this.
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Summary: One of the All Time Best Cornwell Works....
Review: I stayed up all night reading this book until the nail biting end...one of my favorite books by Cornwell.
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Summary: Her best out of the 4 I have read thus far
Review: Just started reading Patricia Cornwell two months ago. This is my 4th book, which I find to be the best one thus far. Postmortem, Body Farm,From Potters Field were the others I have read. This plot is the most interestingly complex of the four and her character (good and bad side) comes out throughout the novel. What I liked the most is the constant interplay of characters, their areas of expertise , and the tasteful way she handles the most gruesome situations. This book is fast-paced and very much fun to read. I look forward to the rest of them.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: Patricia Cornwall is in a class of her own, if you enjoy a real nailbiting thriller with characters that you grow to feel as if you know, then any of her books are for you, the only warning I would give is that her books are seriously addictive
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