The Last Precinct
by Patricia Cornwell | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0316646245 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0316646245 Global Overview for this book
Registered by woosang of Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia on 10/3/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by woosang at Crew Library Cupboard in Waterfall, New South Wales Australia on Monday, October 3, 2005
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What is peculiarly impressive about The Last Precinct, Patricia Cornwell's new addition to her popular series about the pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is that it is a book in which everything is up for grabs and all is at stake. Murders we thought settled for good in previous books, with guilt allocated and people arrested or killed, suddenly come bubbling to the surface again. Kay finds herself accused of killing difficult Deputy Police Chief Diane Bray, and of framing the deformed psychopath who killed Diane and burst into Kay's home with murderous intent. Even the hideous death of Kay's lover Benton, several books ago, turns out to have been more complicated than we thought. Kay finds herself in jeopardy several times over with her headstrong lesbian niece, her only entirely reliable ally. This is a book in which Cornwell takes her heroine into new areas--we get the same amount of complicated forensic lore, but there is a new personal urgency to it, a sense that detection is not a game. Kay's relationships with colleagues have always been prickly, but here they become more problematic than ever before;
What is peculiarly impressive about The Last Precinct, Patricia Cornwell's new addition to her popular series about the pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is that it is a book in which everything is up for grabs and all is at stake. Murders we thought settled for good in previous books, with guilt allocated and people arrested or killed, suddenly come bubbling to the surface again. Kay finds herself accused of killing difficult Deputy Police Chief Diane Bray, and of framing the deformed psychopath who killed Diane and burst into Kay's home with murderous intent. Even the hideous death of Kay's lover Benton, several books ago, turns out to have been more complicated than we thought. Kay finds herself in jeopardy several times over with her headstrong lesbian niece, her only entirely reliable ally. This is a book in which Cornwell takes her heroine into new areas--we get the same amount of complicated forensic lore, but there is a new personal urgency to it, a sense that detection is not a game. Kay's relationships with colleagues have always been prickly, but here they become more problematic than ever before;
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