No one speaks for the dead like Kay Scarpetta,
forensic pathologist and Patricia Cornwell’s captivating character. Autopsy is her 25th Scarpetta
novel. shocking and detailed as the previous 24. (I’ve read most of them.)
The new Virginia Chief ME’s first crime scene is a woman in full
display, throat cut to her spine. That’s the beginning. As appointee of the
Doomsday Commission Scarpetta is summoned to work on the first crime scene in
space—remotely. While working cases in tandem, a possible serial killer
strikes again. Even Scarpetta is in danger.
The forensic detailing is classic Cornwell as is the tension she
creates. Her killers are intelligent, her characters are one-of-a-kind, and
Scarpetta’s scientific mind is always in gear. That’s why I love her world with
Scarpetta in Autopsy.
The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay Scarpetta
Kay Scarpetta is back, and this time she's right in the path of danger...
World-renowned forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton, a psychologist with the US Secret Service, have returned to Virginia. They are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that's been torn by civil and political unrest.
Just weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to a railway track where a woman's body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine. But the trail of…
Susan Ryeland, former publisher (and hero with
Atticus Pund in The Magpie Murders), runs a small hotel with her boyfriend in
Greece. When a couple visit and describe a murder in their daughter’s wedding hotel,
and on the same day—Ryeland’s intrigued.
Susans’s
former client and the writer/creator of the Atticus Pund series knew the victim
and writes a book about the murder (Atticus Pund Takes the Cake). It convinced
the couple’s daughter that the man convicted is innocent. Now she’s missing. Ryeland
leaves Greece to investigate.
Horowitz is a mastermind of mystery, famously so. And this book is as full of
the twists, turns, and clues as The Magpie Murders which I loved. The
complexity and the characters are re-delivered. Fantastically!!
Prime Minister
Disraeli chooses a gentlemen detective for a diplomatic mission at the Queen’s bidding. Anxious for a first U.S. visit
Charles Lenox, Lynch’s protagonist with
panache, accepts with aplomb.
Lenox
finds himself in a social drama when the season’s loveliest debutante seems to
have thrust herself over a cliff at a fabulous Newport mansion. Is it suicide?
Or murder? His wit and charm engage both
old Knickerbocker society and the new robber baron mystique, but his
investigative prowess takes them by storm.
Finch
characters always surprise and excel. Intelligent. Never fawning. Never
condescending. Always with innate strength.
An American author,
he has mastered describing English society at the turn of the century. Environments?
Be it his country or across the pond, I enjoy his fine tuning.
In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.
London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case.
But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance to satisfy an unfulfilled yearning: to…
Growing up post-1945 doesn't make all seniors stubborn, feeble-minded, or set in their ways. Squawk blogger, Judy, and her college friends may be in the evening of their lives, but they're progressive seniors. Not in the political sense. Compared to today's women, life for these six MSU grads was harder in some respects and easier in others. Many of their experiences contributed to larks that make jaw-dropping stories and individual opinions they share. Opinions on men and marriage, sex and surgery, millennials and mothers, Black Lives Matter and the COVID-19 pandemic, politics and psychics, cosmetics and clothes, and of course, kids. Sincere? Definitely. Politically correct? Not on your life. And if you're willing to read about feelings and beliefs that may differ from yours, fasten your seat belts.
