Predator
2005 • 453 pages
Ratings8
Average rating3.3
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Ratings8
Average rating3.3
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.
Series
24 primary booksKay Scarpetta is a 24-book series with 24 primary works first released in 1990 with contributions by Patricia Cornwell and Patricia Daniels Cornwell.
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Credit where credit is due: I hate books written in the present tense AND I went into this book expecting a forensic mystery.
That being said, the pacing was terrible, the book was so overstuffed that at one point, in the middle of discussing a crime scene we get step by step details of the main character cooking a risotto and the most minute of characters (characters who were mentioned on less than two pages) were given names and personalities. The ending was the most trite thing imaginable and several plot holes were left unfilled.
By far, the best thing about this book was the forensics – full of luminol and superglue fuming; however, forensics took a far back seat to the life details of every minor character.
