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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.
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Going through the motions with Scarpetta and the gang,
Par Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I picked up "Predator," the 14th of the Kay Scarpetta Mysteries written by Patricia Cornwell wondering what wringers the author was going to put her creation through this time. This is because I am convinced that Cornwell does not like her creation, which seems a reasonable explanation as to why Scarpetta wallows in such despair. Her chief medical examiner is now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida and working on a case regarding the disappearance of four people who appear to have been abducted from their home. Meanwhile, Benton Wesley is interviewing a psychopath as part of the PREDATOR research study in Boston, Pete Marino discovers that a woman who complained about being harassed by a citrus canker inspector has been murdered, and Lucy is cruising bars in Provincetown. The good news is that there actually is movement on some of the three elements that have defined the recent Scarpetta novels. First, the requisite hack who is out to get Scarpetta actually gets a little of what is coming to them for once and I will tell you right now that is the reason I ended up rounding up on this book was because this finally happened. It was not the completely cathartic comeuppance I have been dreaming of (where my imagination with regards to how such an event should unfold would be more in keeping with that of the subjects of PREDATOR than Marino's day dreams). Second, this time Lucy is aware that she is self-destructive and that she is getting involved with somebody with whom she should not be involved from the moment they meet up. Acknowledging you have a problem is the first step to solving it, and while I never expect Lucy or anybody else in these books will ever tame their demons, a half step in the right direction still constitutes movement. Then again, lots of people are suffering in this one because of Lucy's mistake. I am also pleased to reporter that Scarpetta cooks up another meal relative late in the book (Risotto alla Sbriggalia). However, the third and most important part of the formula is still firmly entrenched. This is the one that declares whatever cases Scarpetta, Lucy, Marino and Benton are working on they are all related and just one giant case. Of course they are all preoccupied with their own cases and their is a snow storm to contend with as well, but the main problem this time is that neither Lucy nor Marino are currently talking to Scarpetta, for different reasons, and we know full way that Scarpetta and Benton have a hard time having a meaningful conversation about anything other than dead bodies. This is such a small, small world that has been created here that you would think the characters would have noticed every serial killer (sorry, Benton, I meant compulsive murderer) in the nation is after one or more of them. There is nothing in "Predator" to convince Cornwell's dwindling fan base that she is not simply going through the motions. Scarpetta's forensic knowledge, which was pivotal in the earlier books in the series, has now become tangential. It used to be that her exhaustive examination of a corpse and crime scene was crucial to catching the killer, but in this book the most rigorous forensic examination Scarpetta undertakes consists not of looking at a body but at photographs on a computer disc and the conclusion that she reaches has nothing to do with the resolution of the case at the heart of the novel although she does put the key piece of evidence in front of the right person at the conveniently prefect moment. Beyond that, Cornwell teases us in the final chapter by hinting at a future autopsy that would be the basis for making a rather interesting argument in court as to how a suicide would be a murder. Actually, Scarpetta talks about making another case against long odds to stand up in court in that final chapter that would be interesting to see played out as well. Unfortunately, I have no reasonably hopes that Cornwell would write a novel that included those stories and get back to the strengths of her character and her mysteries. I will continue to read these books for the simple reason that I find doing this ongoing postmortem on this series to be painfully ironic, which is really not as much fun as it sounds. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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suspense garanti,
Par poupina86 "poupina86" (France) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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Ce nouveau chef d'oeuvre de Patricia Cornwell nous emméne dans les méandres d'un esprit dérangé. On reste en haleine jusqu'à la fin car il est difficile d'imaginer le dénouement final. Patricia Cornwell signe ici une nouvelle aventure de Kay Scarpetta et de toute sa petite trbu qui vous laissera sans voix.
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