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Scarpetta by: Patricia Cornwell List Price: £18.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £9.49 You Save: £9.50 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780316733144 ISBN: 0316733148 Label: Little, Brown Manufacturer: Little, Brown Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: November 27, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown Release Date: November 24, 2008 Studio: Little, Brown Sales Rank: 31 Related Items:
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 Rating: - YES! This is more like it!"Scarpetta" is the return to form we have all been waiting for! I started the book yesterday, and I'm now halfway through, but I wanted to share my first impressions. I think this is Ms. Cornwell's best Scarpetta novel since "The Last Precinct". Her writing seems tight and focused again; from the outset, the characters and the reader plunge into the investigation, and there's none of those awful (in my opinion) 'inside the killer's mind in real-time' sequences that ruined books like "Predator" for me. Here, the reader discovers things with the characters. I'll post again when I've finished the book, but the first-half is very promising. Thank you, Ms. Cornwell!! Rating: - Comments by Michael Calum Jacques author of '1st Century Radical'.For those readers as yet uninitiated with Patricia Cornwell's writings, it is probably worth pointing out that Kay Scarpetta is the author's main protagonist in her series of crime novels, of which this is the latest, the 16th, in fact, as far as this reviewer is aware. Cornwell's 'Scarpetta' series of novels are noteworthy for her employment of 'up to the minute' forensic technology. The novels constitutes also, to some extent, a genuine, progressive series being interlinked with 'peripheral' characters (and not so peripheral ones, such as Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, and Benton Wesley et al) occasionally reappearing or being revisited. Briefly, the fictional Dr. Kay Scarpetta was born in Miami, Florida and is of Italian parentage; ... Read More: |
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