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In this latest outing, Kay finds herself back in Virginia examining a curious death, that of the youthful Gilly Paulson. Joel Marcus, her successor as Chief Medical Examiner, has summoned a reluctant Scarpetta to help out, but her professional work is compromised by her unhappiness at the radical changes occurring in her old territory: Scarpetta's old morgue has been bulldozed, and she isn’t happy working with the man who took her job. Other members of the familiar Scarpetta crew make an appearance: her partner Benton Wesley and her niece Lucy Farinelli are tracking down an assailant who has nearly ended the life of one of Lucy’s colleagues. The two cases turn out to be connected (surprise!), and soon several lives are at stake.
After the recent misfires, it’s a relief to note that Patricia Cornwell is back on track, dealing comfortably with her most familiar protagonist and a plot that yokes in bomb-makers and some bizarre sexual practices. A resounding welcome back, to both Ms Cornwell and Ms Scarpetta.--Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Die Handlung ist seicht und an den Haaren herbeigezogen (Lucy, die Ferrari fahrend und in einer Millionenvilla lebend als Pseudogeheimagentin arbeitet ist der Gipfel an Lächerlichkeit), immer wieder bemüht sich Cornwell den Leser wenigstens ein bisschen auf die falsche Fährte zu locken, allein, es will ihr nicht gelingen.
Die Geschichte von Kay Scarpetta ist fertig erzählt, das merkt man an jeder bemühten, unglaubwürdigen Zeile dieses Buches, hoffentlich bemerkt es der Verlag auch bald, dass Patricia Cornwell es weiß ist mehr als offensichtlich.
The current Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia asks Scarpetta to come back to Richmond as an outhouse expert in the case of a girl who seemingly died of the flu about two weeks ago. Although Scarpetta was supposed to go on a vacation to Aspen with Benton and against better judgement as well as against Lucy's advice she flies back to Richmond with Marino. A lot has changed since she was fired about five years ago: her old building is being torn down, she finds the OCME in complete disarray, evidence is being handled carelessly and sloppily. The recently appointed current CME is an incapable scumbag, who doesn't want Scarpetta to be there (he had to call her on behest of the Health Commissioner) and he accuses her of cross-contaminating evidence. Kay has enough problems of her own even without having returned to Richmond: since Benton's "resurrection" she has been physically distant to him and doesn't know whether that will ever change...
Marino is on the South-Beach-Diet, still his sloppy, acerbic old self and still carrying a torch for Scarpetta. So much the worse it is for him when she has to examine him for injuries caused by a sexual encounter he shouldn't have had.....
Lucy is being stalked and her latest paramour - Henri, a former actress turned LAPD-cop turned Lucy's employee - nearly gets killed. Lucy is getting careless and fears that Rudy will quit his job with The Last Precinct. She has Benton counseling Henri only to find out things about Henri she doesn't want to hear...
A tractor driver at the demolition site of the old OCME building gets run over by his tractor but how come that there is the same trace evidence that was there in the "Sick Girl's"-case?
Someone attracted to death has obviously started causing it. But who and why? Who is the prime target: Scarpetta or Lucy?
Result: The plot is *a lot* better than in "Blow Fly". In fact to me it was as good as in the first Scarpetta-novels: intriguing, gloomy, thrilling, page-turning and simply unputdownable. It felt like the characters had become "alive" again instead of being puppets on the strings . There were only a few minor glitches nagging me that are hardly worth mentioning (e.g. the somewhat abrupt ending). Cornwell even has cut down on her use of acronyms to a more than bearable level. The old Scarpetta is definitely back and since the end is quite an open one, I will gladly accompany her wherever she will go in the next novel, if she stays with us the way she is now. 5* +++!
In "Trace" wartet man über knapp 500 Seiten leider vergeblich auf etwas Spannung, es werden lediglich die diversen Beziehungsprobleme der Hauptfiguren zueinander aufgewärmt.
Schade, ich hoffe auf den nächsten Roman der Serie!
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