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by Patricia Cornwell

Author:

Patricia Cornwell

ISBN13:

978-0751534047

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0751534048

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English

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Time Warner Books; New edition edition (April 6, 2006)

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Suspense

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Mystery

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Who Remember when you could actually read and enjoy the Kay Scarpetta books from Patricia Cornwell?

The fourteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.

The fourteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesFlorida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her. And in Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups.

Predator is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell. Predator is the fourteenth book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series by author Patricia Cornwell. PREDATOR" is an acronym for the Prefrontal Determinants of Aggressive-Type Overt Responsivity, a secret neuropsychological project to determine whether dangerous murderers have different brain patterns or functions from "ordinary" people.

Predator (2005) ISBN 0-399-15283-0. Book of the Dead (2007) ISBN 0-399-15393-4. I discovered my first Patricia Cornwell book 3 years ago. Since then, I cant stop reading. I already have 7 books up to date and think she is an amazing writer and person. Scarpetta (2008) ISBN 0-316-73314-8. The Scarpetta Factor (2009) ISBN 0-399-15639-9.

Cornwell Patricia - скачать бесплатно все книги автора. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. Книги 1-25 из 25. All That Remains. Жанр: Научная фантастика. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace, not only personally and professionally but geographically.

Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work.

Patricia Cornwell Predator 1 She writes forensic psychologist Benton Wesley an e-mail: It is Sunday afternoon and Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in her office at cademyinHollywood,Florida, where clouds are building. Kay Scarpetta is in her office at cademyinHollywood,Florida, where clouds are building, promising another thunderstorm. It’s not supposed to be this rainy and hot in February. Gunfire pops, and voices yell things she can’t make out. Simulated combat is popular on the weekends. Special Ops agents can run around in black fatigues, shoot. 1. She writes forensic psychologist Benton Wesley an e-mail

Florida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her. And in Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups. The Academy is called when a woman's body is found in Boston. She has been tortured, sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy had seen on the flesh of her latest pick-up. Meanwhile, Scarpetta and Marino are investigating the disappearance of a family in Florida, called in by a concerned neighbour, but as they search and find the tell-tale signs of abduction rather than disappearance, they also discover that someone had assumed the identity of the caller, and she is now dead. They've been set up, and it becomes clear that someone is tracking their every move.

Dondallon

It is hard to believe that Patricia Cornwell, who wrote the first ten books in the Scarpetta series, is the author of Predator The beautiful sentence structure and descriptions have morphed into something with a repetitive Dick and Jane feel.

"He kicks and kicks with his big boots until his legs are too tired to kick anymore. He slams and slams her with the stock of the shotgun until his arms are too tired to slam anymore." What???

One of the great things in the earlier books was how Cornwell introduced all the scientific knowledge. It was done in an artful way that made sense. This reads more like a technical manual where the info is just dumped on the reader. There is a multi-page description on how to make gelatin shooting blocks.

A number of the behaviors don't make sense. Lucy, the computer genius, apparently never updates her passwords for a year. Like the previous book, Lucy involves Benton in another secret that is kept from Kay. Once again this further damages Benton's relationship with Kay. At one point Benton and Kay have a long discussion about splitting up and Kay starts planning on taking her belongings. A few chapters later they are suddenly discussing what to have for lunch and everything is okay.

Marino is an incredible jerk to everyone, to the point where Kay considers firing him. He behaves in a degrading fashion to a local female cop who forgives him the minute he can spit out a coherent sentence. The characters are two dimensional, there are only the most remote forms of relationships, and there are a plethora of secondary villains with little resolution. The plot twists defy logic and there are enough loose threads to knit a sweater.

Scarpetta herself says it best:

"“I’m getting tired of coincidences. There seem to have been a lot of them lately." I totally agree!

Nicearad

Ugh. Just ugh. I loved the early Scarpetta novels, but something has been happening over the last few, and I don't mean just the change from past to present tense and from first person to third - which I hate, BTW. Cornwell has also started including chapters from the murderer's point of view, so there isn't even any mystery. The regular characters seems to be devolving, trying to see which one can be more obnoxious than the others. The action in this story comes at you from every direction, and if you truly want to follow what's going on, I suggest you take notes. After a whirlwind of ferociously unconnected plot twists, the ending is a letdown, and really doesn't tie up any of the loose ends, although by the time I'd finished the book, I really didn't care. Please, Ms. Cornwell, if you don't like these characters any more, stop writing about them and put us all out of our misery.

Stick

I used to love Patricia Cornwell's books. I bought hard copies and now am purchasing for my kindle and re-reading. The story line is passable, but the main characters have changed too much for my liking. Kay is more pompous than ever....Lucy belongs behind bars....Benton is simply there...nothing remarkable about him. The only endearing character is Marino. I'm not sure anyone could work for this condescending know it all for long, let alone be in a relationship with her. Her character gets more and more unlikable and I think at times I need to start rooting for the perpetrators. This type of story/writing is probably why I have put down the Scarpetta books for quite awhile.

Precious

Unfortunately, I'm inclined to agree with reviewers who are questioning first themselves. Have I missed a book? Or, who's writing this and slapping the name of a previously well liked and respected author on it? Unexplained questions throughout the story don't add suspense, they just had me going back to what had already been read, which is frustrating. What happened to make Pete Marino such a paranoid, self destructive, unlikable thug? Is there some new, albeit as yet unreported disease that explains what's happening to Lucy? A tumor on the pituitary gland?? Come on! For all his character contributed to this story, Benton has become a ruminating boob who may need to go back into the WitSec program. The contention and anger traded back and forth isn't helpful to the storyline. It simply feels like a tabloid insert for no reason whatsoever. I purchased her hard cover books from the beginning and thoroughly enjoyed them. I stopped reading Patricia Cornwell around Scarpetta # 8 because they were becoming repetitive and way too "unfinished". A friend gave me her latest books from "Black Notice" to "Blow Fly". There's a gap, then I have everything from "The Scarpetta Factor" to "The Bone Bed" but, since I prefer reading in sequence, I purchased the books that were missing. Predator was my 3rd purchase. There will be no more purchases of Ms Cornwell's efforts. I'm not even sure I'll read the hard copy books I already have.

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