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I paid ten bucks for the stupid thing and Im gonna finish it - but then I'm gonna write it a bad review. The characters were less than believable and completely outrageous as was the plot. I thought, at first, she was trying to write a comedy. My response. So this is the second Scarpetta book I've read, the first being Post Mortem, which I really enjoyed. This one was not so good. It was a joke at my work that I kept plugging away at it despite the fact that I was not enjoying it in the least.
The two hoped that Marino would not see Kay again. He becomes involved in the murder case of a very short woman with a compulsive need for cleanliness. "She didn't cut her hair short, but she keeps it very clean. She likes having sex in the shower. The brilliant computer specialist, Lucy Farinelli, Kay's devoted niece, is incensed at Gotham Gotcha.
Now, Benton has lost sexual interest in Kay and can't understand why or talk to Kay about it.Pete Marino, a police officer and Kay's devoted friend for many years, attacked her in an apparent attempted rape while drunk. He says that he trusts Kay, but does not say why. (We have sex and) afterwards, wash each other's hair, and usually have sex again in the shower. Why doesn't Kay remember the meeting. She uses a towel once, and then it went into the wash. He claims that he is being stalked by his fiancée's killer. Kay had kept the episode secret.
Because you're sitting in dirty water. How will Lucy deal with Marino.Patricia Cornwell is an excellent entertaining and skilled writer and her tale about Scarpetta, its characterizations, intricacies, twists and turns, is a delight. Why was she killed.The internet gossip column Gotham Gotcha publishes the story of Marino's attempted rape and other salacious reports about Kay. I know it's not normal. Berger also asks Lucy to help her solve the murder case. Is he insane. But then Kay and Benton move to New York to work there.Marino works for the New York prosecutor Jamie Berger.
Now Kay will be seeing Marino again.Why did Oscar Bane want Kay to examine him. Thousands of people read the column. That's what she says, constantly. He was agitated because of Kay's marriage to Benton. Who killed Oscar Bane's fiancée. When they were unmarried, the attraction between the two was electric. How will Kay's examination prove that Bane is innocent.
Benton tells Kay nothing about his involvement with Marino. Bane insists that Kay examine him and prosecutor Jamie Berger asks Kay to comply with his request and help her with the bizarre murder. Lucy seeks revenge. How will she do it. How did the information get out. Kay keeps the episode secret.Marino enters a detox facility and then asks Benton to help him find a new job, away from Kay and South Carolina, and Benton got him a job in New York. Cornwell has a character describe her.
She calls it clean sex." The suspected murderer, who made these comments, is her fiancée Oscar Bane another very short person with his own unusual psychological idiosyncrasies. Is Bane fixated on Kay. Never a bath. Kay Scarpetta is now married to the ex-FBI forensic psychologist Benton Wesley. If she went somewhere, the minute she got back inside, she'd take a shower and wash her hair. Did the two of them meet before.
Two stars instead of one because, as I said, I'm still listening. Only people talking. My wife and I popped this into the CD player on a long car trip. The relationship talk is endless, frequent, and tedious. .
And so far, pointless. Around the middle of disk 5 we looked at each other and said the same thing: Nothing has happened in this book. . . why I'm still listening to this.
I assume that it was not the interesting portion of the book, or the parts where people are doing something other than talking or thinking about talking, that was abridged out of the CD edition.
Indeed, the characters all seem to be too much of one thing: evil, brilliant, repentant, self-absorbed. They demand no investment by the reader.This is a good book for travel, though, one you can put down or finish without the least remorse Many of the things I liked about Scarpetta in the early books -- cooking, and fallibility, for example -- are missing here (as has been the case in most recent books). Both the plot and the characters are pedestrian. My enjoyment has diminished, however, in a rough proportion to the progress of the series. I've enjoyed the Kay Scarpetta books and I admire Patricia Cornwell for being able to sustain her output in this series. I'd put this one near the top of the lowest third, a five-finger exercise by a very capable but very uninspired craftsperson. Scarpetta is a mere visitor to this book, and even when she shows up in the last quarter or so, she is remote and tiresome in her solemnity.
I'm at Chapter 21 and trying to stay interested. After this I'm going to have to get a quick fix from Vince Flynn or Brad Thor to recover. I started reading book after wife finished it while we were on vacation. I'll probably complete the book.but won't read any more of hers.
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