Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > There's clunkiness here and there where everything is spelled out in dialogue instead of conveying some in narrative or where readers are inside Scarpetta's head too much, but that's minor. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests. This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Continue reading » A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

Cornwell combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider's view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim murders of young Continue reading » So happy that Kay's horrible secretary, Maggie, wasn't in this one as much undermining and plotting against her at every turn like the last one. Loved that Benton was involved more too. The office and inter-agency politics play a big part of the story and I think they'll be at play in future installments. Interested to see how it all turns out. Recommended Reads about Race, Racism, and Demarginalizing History - Necessary Non-fiction You Should Read for Life-changing Insights and Impact Hooked from the first chapter. Interesting and bizarre case with. Cutting edge weaponry I had no idea existed. Disturbing to say the least.

Another 15 rounds for Virginia chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her well-placed enemies past and present. This book was so bad I started questioning my childhood. When I was in Jr. High and high school my mom and I would both read Kay Scarpetta books. We liked them. The medical examiner angle is an interesting one for crime fiction. But this book was so bad, I wonder if all those books my mom and I read were similarly bad. What is it like to be the wife of the preacher to the presidents, the peripatetic world evangelist Billy Graham? In this new version of her first book, published in 1983, popular crime novelist Continue reading »

It has been 32 years since the first Kay Scarpetta novel was published in 1990. I was a bit late to the game, but in the mid 90's my sister-in-law recommended the series to me. That was also when I was having my babies and reading about Kay Scarpetta's investigations was a wonderful escape. My youngest will be turning 25 this year and I recall having one of the early books with me at the hospital when I was in labor. This one seemed to take a bit long to get in gear, but once it did there were glimpses of the old days. At the same time there is a modern weapon threat that is realistic enough to scare the pants off of me. I have a feeling I know where the next one will go and it could be a bit of a walk down memory lane revisiting and old series of murders called the Parkway killings. Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta is testifying at a trial and only the defense team is happy about it since she says no one was murdered. The courtroom crowd and prosecutor are openly hostile and the judge seems to be also, even though she is Kay's friend. As soon as Kay's testimony is over, she learns of the suspicious death of the judge's sister. The primary action and major plot developments occur outside of the primary characters and offstage from the reader. The core people involved are constantly informed of the key activities propelling the plot forward. They don’t actually experience the events first hand. They come in after those events and then react to what has already happened. Noting happens. Scarpetta has almost no impact on the plot. The acronym PPE mus come up 50 times. We are to believe someone that invents a super weapon would use it on a couple of nobodies.has indomitable medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning to her office in Richmond five years after being Continue reading »