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• Okay...now that's the way I expect a Kay Scarpetta story to unfold. I like it when the focus is the team, Kay, Marino, Lucy & Benton!

  4.00 out of 5

  hemlokgang

• I thoroughly enjoyed this book since the medical technology was not as heavy as in past novels. I had a premonition that Lady Grimm might be mixed up in the killings, and this is partly true. Kay's feeling for Marino seems strange at times. Cornwell does an excellent job with setting and characters, but the plot sags a little. I enjoyed the foray into deciphering the clues in the murder of a family in Savannah. Kay starts following the clues and the photographs of the scene to determine what really happened. As usual, Cornwell slips in little clues throughout the story. This story centered mostly on Kay with very little inaction from Benton and Lucy. The interplay between Marino and Kay progresses the story, but in this book, I felt Marino was not in his usual mode.

  3.00 out of 5

  delphimo

• Cornwell and her Kay Scarpetta books have been some of my favorite books for many years, however the last couple books haven't been the same quality as previous books. Still enjoyable but not the same quality.Set six months after the death of Kay's former Deputy Chief Jack Fielding Kay attends a women's prison in Savannah, Georgia to speak with Kathleen Lawyer, a convicted sex offended who molested Jack as a youth and gave birth to his daughter and murderer Dawn. Kay is on a quest to find out the truth behind Jack's death and the details of what happened on the night that Dawn attempted to kill Kay. Determined to hear Kathleen out she attends the prison against the judgment and advice of her husband Benton, and in attending sets off a string of events that are quite possibly all connected. Kay is drawn into an investigation that comes perilously close to home.At almost 500 pages this is quite the chunster, but the first half of the book was quite slow with lots of detail on the background and history of the characters. Once the story actually got going it flew by.Enjoyable but recommended only to people who have read the previous books as there is a ton of back history that will be hard to understand for anyone who has not read the rest.

  3.00 out of 5

  Gogs81

• I have come to conclude that I positively hate Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Analytical, humorless and quite the manipulative bitch. I can't stand the way her characters have developed, going from good guys to psychos. That being said, her novels are always well-written and compelling. This time, Kay is looking at the death of Jack Fielding, her former deputy chief at the hand's of his love child, Dawn Kincaid. This is tied in with the Georgia Correctional Facility for Women and the murder of the Jordan family 9 years ago by a nearly retarded girl, Lola Daggette. 500 well written, tedious pages, devoid of personality. I wish she'd give this series up.

  2.50 out of 5

  phoenixcomet

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