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Summary: One of the Best Mysteries that I have read.
Review: I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good mystery. This is the first time I have read a novel written by this author, and it will not be the last.
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Summary: A GREAT READ!!
Review: Living in Australia, we're lucky because Black Notice was released here only a week ago, unlike in the US where it'll be release later! It took me 2 days to finish the book - reading it at work, at lunch and even in the bath!! Just one word to describe the book; its fantastic!!! A great read and denfinately a must for all crime fiction readers.
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Summary: Great so far
Review: Being in Australia I have been very lucky to be able to buy the latest Scarpetta book Black Notice. I only bought it today and already I cannot put it down. I'm 1/4 way through it and it has lived up to all my expectations so far.I only discovered Patricia Cornwell book begining of December 1998 and by the end of January I had read all of them and them read Point of Origin on the plane going to England in February. The characters come so much to life that I have cryed when Lucy has been in trouble and then when Benton died and now at the being of this new adventure my heart goes out to Kay again. Thanks Patricia for such exciting books. I can not wait to finish this new novel but then I'm sad because I have to wait so long to read what is happening to Kay, Lucy and Pete.
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Summary: An excellent, thrilling and all around enjoyable book.
Review: This like all of books in the Scarpetta series is a brillant and entertaining piece of fiction. Patricia Cornwell has a talent for writing books that you never want to put down. Although she has written many books in the Scarpetta series i have never found them to be repetative, each novel continues to get better and better which is a great achievement, as not all authors can honestly say this to be true with their books. I just hope that Patricia Cornwell can continue to write such suspenseful novels in the future.
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Summary: Another Good Book
Review: This book was an overall good book. There were a few "harsh" moments. I don't think this outweighed the good of the book. The investigation of the murder was exciting and suspenseful. I do think that reading these books in order will better help with understanding the characters and their actions. I would definitely recommend reading the series of books, Point of Origin being the one written before this.
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Summary: Great story, weak characterization
Review: Patricia Cornwell still tells a great story, but her characters are shrinking -- their dimensions are becoming too narrow and unmotivated. Scarpetta is depressed and cranky, Lucy is "acting" strange and stranger and Pete is eating too much, smoking too much and kvetching too much. It's time for some motivated development for these folks. And Talley, whom Kay meets and beds and rejects in a 24 hour (?) period, is too shallow to convince the reader that Kay is getting it all together again by letting him into her life. The book also has a villain who's distinguishing personality feature is his unusually long hair. Hirsute is not compelling and in fact it's not believable. I hope Cornwell can bring her characters to life again, but she needs to discard the paranoia and the depression themes (and we've also read enough about bad folks manipulating the e-mail at the morgue). In the beginning, Scarpetta was a bright, resilient, indefatigable woman who shed her problems and solved the crime; we need to see her in that role again. Send Kay back to the bar at Louies Backyard and let her find herself again.
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Summary: Black Notice - Patricia Cornwell
Review: For some reason, I stopped reading Cornwell novels several years ago. After "Black Notice," I want to go back and catch up on the ones I have missed, and even the ones I have read before! Yes, it is that good.
Kay Scarpetta grows and develops as Cornwell moves forward in her series about the Doctor-Lawyer-Chief Medical Officer. Based in Richmond, VA, Scarpetta lives in a niche port -- one that is not international and rarely has its cargo opened and checked. However, the stench of death and decay in an off-loaded container drags Kay to murder most vicious.
Covering the corpse is the residue of downy fine human hair; it was in his clothes and clung to the body as it traveled across the Atlantic Ocean. Scratched on one of the boxes is a clue about a werewolf. The first issue is to find the identity of John Doe, and since the ship was foreign and the clue written in French, this leads to Interpol.
Interpol requests Scarpetta and her detective partner Pete Marino to fly to France. It is significant that their flight is on the Concord, and that they stay in one of the most expensive hotels in Paris.
Cornwell is masterful in her use of words. The character?s dialogues fit their education; I once had a teacher who called words not in every day usage "ten dollar college words." That Kay Scarpetta is both an attorney and a doctor makes her extensive vocabulary help a reader suspend disbelief.
Cornwell?s writing is rich with details and descriptions, and I wish I could read this book for the first time. The story is complete, and it is not until I started "The Last Precinct" that I realized it needed a sequel.
This is an excellent suspense thriller with a great mystery. I savor words and phrases, so I do not read as fast as though who get the gist and go on; I could not put it down and I anxiously await the next installment. This is five star read.
Victoria Tarrani
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Summary: Another Good Book
Review: This book was an overall good book. There were a few "harsh" moments. I don't think this outweighed the good of the book. The investigation of the murder was exciting and suspenseful. I do think that reading these books in order will better help with understanding the characters and their actions. I would definitely recommend reading the series of books, Point of Origin being the one written before this.
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Summary: My least favorite Scarpetta
Review: Of all the books in this series, this is my least favorite. The story was a bit too unbelievable, but it is more Kay Scarpetta for lovers of this series. At least I did finish the book so I'll say it's an okay read!
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Summary: Too Many Coincidences is almost the undoing of this book.
Review: There are a number of very glaring coincidences in this book and I think that this is the biggest problem with the book. For example, how could a case that Kay's Lucy is working for AFTA in Miami have anything to do with a homicidal maniac in Kay's town of Richmond? But in spite of this glaring inconsistency, I still enjoyed the book. We see Kay at her most vulnerable here and to those of us who have followed her story from the beginning, it is understandable. This book takes place a year after Kay's lover, Benton was killed in the line of duty, and in typical Kay fashion, she has really not dealt with her feelings about that. She has been burying herself in her work as usual. The killer that is stalking Kay's city forces her to deal with some "unlaid-to-rest" issues surrounding Benton's death. This is quite a dark book, but an edge-of-your-seat thriller that keeps the reader guessing until the end. We also see some real character development in some of the main characters; particularly Marino and Kay herself. It is so important that this series be read in order, and unless it is I don't think readers get the true scope of the series, and they certainly can't see the character development that occurs in each subsequent book.
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