Livid: The new Kay Scarpetta thriller from the No.1 bestseller

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The story was very slow at the start and the end was rushed to try and tie up what had taken place in the previous 300 pages. Working with her long-time friend and colleague, Pete Marino, Scarpetta tries to get to the core of the matter, while keeping some of her past involvement with the judge out of her way. I am so pleased that Patricia Cornwell is back and can only hope there are more Kay Scarpetta novels to come of this calibre. But then as soon as Scarpetta leaves the courtroom, and before we know the outcome of the case in question, the plot and the quality of writing changes as the story's focus suddenly shifts to finding out who has murdered the judge's sister and why. The deceased has been staying with her sister in a creepy old mansion, overgrown with weeds and other greenery.

I would like to thank both Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group UK for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. For over 30 years, I have liked Kay Scarpetta's attention to detail when she is working the field and conducting her autopsies.Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes tell-tale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come. One of the most dynamic and successful commercial imprints in the UK, Sphere aims to publish the highest-quality popular fiction and non-fiction, including thrillers, women's fiction, and celebrity titles. That was also when I was having my babies and reading about Kay Scarpetta's investigations was a wonderful escape.

and Kay's genius niece Lucy, a secret service agent who's a tech expert, are embroiled in the inquiries. Cornwell is not creating something new and refreshing, but rather continues to rely on her plotting methodology of solving a mystery over a condensed two-to-three-day timeframe, an approach that she established and perfected, then used repetitively over and over again until it just got old.I haven't read any of the earlier Scarpetta novels in quite a while, but this book and the last one Autopsy make coming back to this series worthwhile. Kay's testimony infuriates both the prosecutor and the public, who want Hooke locked up for the rest of his life. hours since Kay exited the courtroom, everything is all wrapped up in a tidy bow and the killer is dead. Patricia’s novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and fellow investigator Pete Marino.

As tensions mount for the case to be decided, Scarpetta must determine who is out there, lurking in the shadows. of this book was describing each “environment” within each scene and very little suspense or drama typical to this series. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature.I felt that the author spent a lot of time describing the setting in such detail that she lost focus on what the goal was - writing a story that made you want to turn the page quickly, trying to figure out “who did it”? In my opinion All that Remains, Cruel and Unusual and, in particular From Potter’s Field are some of her very best work. 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 twenty-sixth instalment in the Kay Scarpetta series, Livid, Cornwell has written an ominous thriller that sees Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta not only testifying in the April Tupelo volatile trial but also investigating the bizarre murder of CIA employee Rachael Stanwyck, sister of her close friend Judge Annie Chilton, that as it unfolds also seems strangely connected to a failed assassination attempt on the President, the brutal murder of a beloved local market owner and the suicide of a Tidewater medical examiner.