The Last Precinct
Registered by zimra of Napier, Hawkes Bay-Poverty Bay New Zealand on 4/7/2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What is peculiarly impressive about Patricia Cornwell's new addition to her popular series about the pathologist Kay Scarpetta, The Last Precinct, 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 the killing of 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; Cornwell's admirers will be pleased by this, her most tense and nervy book for years. --Roz Kaveney This review refers to the hardcover edition of this title. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
What is peculiarly impressive about Patricia Cornwell's new addition to her popular series about the pathologist Kay Scarpetta, The Last Precinct, 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 the killing of 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; Cornwell's admirers will be pleased by this, her most tense and nervy book for years. --Roz Kaveney This review refers to the hardcover edition of this title. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Journal Entry 2 by zimra at Bus Stop - Park Road in Grafton, Auckland Province New Zealand on Sunday, April 27, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (4/27/2008 UTC) at Bus Stop - Park Road in Grafton, Auckland Province New Zealand
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On bus stop outside brick house at 4 park ave.
On bus stop outside brick house at 4 park ave.
Twas a wunnerful shock/joy to find this book on a seat opposite Ak Hospital in Grafton - my favourite author. Thanks Zimra!
Journal Entry 4 by LATHAM at -- Wild Released somewhere in Auckland in Auckland, Auckland Province New Zealand on Sunday, May 11, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (5/12/2008 UTC) at -- Wild Released somewhere in Auckland in Auckland, Auckland Province New Zealand
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BUS STOP OPPOSITE BRITOMART RAIL STATION LOWER QUEEN STREET
BUS STOP OPPOSITE BRITOMART RAIL STATION LOWER QUEEN STREET
