Grrrreat GIFT IDEAS!
PetPix PORTAL
Pawsitive FEEDBACK!
Gift CERTIFICATES?
|
 List Price: $7.99 Amazon.com's Price: $6.39 You Save: $1.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Kindle Book Label: Berkley Manufacturer: Berkley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: March 03, 2007 Publisher: Berkley Release Date: March 03, 2007 Studio: Berkley Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: The postmortem is in--Black Notice, the 10th in Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series, is a gore-splattered, intensely exciting read. As winter grips Richmond, Virginia, an air of somberness pervades chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's world. Her beloved niece Lucy is involved in a dangerous undercover police operation in Miami, and auntie fears for her life. A tyrannical new deputy chief, Diane Bray, wants to get Kay's department under her jurisdiction. Meanwhile, back at the office, someone has tinkered with the e-mail system, stealing Kay's identity, and sending off slanderous and hurtful messages. Emotionally battered, Scarpetta fears she is going insane. Or, could it be that someone is deliberately sowing this harvest of sorrow? Despite her personal problems, Scarpetta is still the reigning diva at the department of death. She is sent to investigate the putrefied remains of a man found inside a container ship, "eyes bulged froglike, and the scalp and beard were sloughing off with the outer layer of darkening skin." Kay finds strange, animal-like hairs on the man's clothing--the same hairs that she discovers on a murdered store clerk a few days later. In actuality, the bizarre killings extend well beyond Virginia; whoever killed the Richmond victims also butchered people in France. Kay and police captain Pete Marino are whisked off to Paris where they must collect top-secret information from a Paris morgue, and avoid becoming victims themselves. This macabre tome is the stuff that classic Scarpetta tales are made of: creepy but compulsive autopsy scenes, plentiful plot twists, and the compelling, if slightly more vulnerable chief medical examiner herself. --Naomi Gesinger Product Description: "Patricia Cornwell lights a fire under familiar characters--and sparks her hottest adventure in years," wrote People magazine about Point of Origin, the instant #1 bestseller by America's premier crime writer. "Evil always smolders when it seems to be doused," said The Atlanta Constitution. "Scarpettans know to keep their security systems armed until the next installment." Now Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean's length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to INTERPOL's headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career. In a story that careens across international borders, Black Notice puts Dr. Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Death In A BarrelScarpetta does not find answers to questions she has on the autopsy she has preformed, no name and no cause of death. Scarpetta does have her personal effects and a strange tattoo that stirs her interest. This case takes her to Europe. In her pursuit for answer she puts herself and others in danger. You fly through the story as she flies all over the world. This is one of her best plots. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and Natchez Above The River" Rating:  - Only OkayHaving worked with pathologists and ME's in my life. I find them interesting people. I also like to read fiction starring their profession, regardless as to how far out from reality they may be. It's fiction, right? But this offering from Cornwell isn't her best work. The whole book felt like a rehash of old sections of previous work. Was it worth the read? I suppose. I read most of it on a plane when my expectations were pretty low when it came to entertainment so it was fine ... Read More Rating:  - I Don't Get All of the Negativity Here...I just don't get all of the negative reviews here. I guess it is a good thing I don't read them first. I've been reading the Kay Scarpetta series in order, and find this book in some ways better than the previous ones. It is best if you have read Point of Origin first, and ideally all of the other books in the series. This book is pivotal in the character development of Kay I believe. She is not the strong, clear thinking superwoman that she has been in the previous books. The woman is grieving, ... Read More Rating:  - Cashing in on past glory.A write must learn to end a series if they cannot keep up with strong and original plots. As a former admirer of Ms Cornwell, I am very disappointed in this book. The plot is so bizarre that it is difficult to take it seriously. There are too many references to a previous story-line (Benton) that is tiresome for those of us who have not read the Scarpetta series in chronological order, assuming that it was a recap of a previous book. The characters' flaws are so exaggerated that one wonders how sophisticated ... Read More Rating: - I hope the First is the WorstThis is the first time a have read a Cornwell novel. I hope my first time reading her is my worst experience with her novels because I will soon embark on reading three more of her novels. The sub-plots in this work, if they can even be considered sub-plots, add virtually nothing to the story line. And the addition of segments about Ms Scarpettas dead former lover, also add absolutely nothing more than adding pages. In reality these are all put in to thicken the book. If Ms Cornwell were to be honest with ... Read More 
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
