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Ho-Hum What has happened to Scarpetta
The Scarpetta novels started with a driven career woman who would not let anything stand in her way, she got on with her life and got the baddies with the help of Police officer Marino, in this installment, Scarpetta is a weak-willed woman, who stalls and strays on her quest for the right answers. Not one of Cornwell's best.
Veröffentlicht am 27. Juli 2000 von Amanda Howard
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NOT JUST ANOTHER WEREWOLF STORY...
This is an intriguing and well-crafted Kay Scarpetta mystery, which begins promisingly enough with the discovery of an overly ripe, dead body. Found stashed in a locked and sealed freight container aboard a cargo ship from Belgium that has landed in Dr. Kay Scarpetta's jurisdiction of Richmond, Virginia, the male, mystery corpse is covered with loose hairs. This...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Januar 2003 von Lawyeraau
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NOT JUST ANOTHER WEREWOLF STORY..., 19. Januar 2003
This is an intriguing and well-crafted Kay Scarpetta mystery, which begins promisingly enough with the discovery of an overly ripe, dead body. Found stashed in a locked and sealed freight container aboard a cargo ship from Belgium that has landed in Dr. Kay Scarpetta's jurisdiction of Richmond, Virginia, the male, mystery corpse is covered with loose hairs. This intriguing beginning sends Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Richmond, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, on a hunt for information that turns international in scope. She discovers that this is just one of a number of murders to contain those tell tale hairs.The murders, themselves, are graphic and the forensic details, as always, are fascinating, and Dr. Scarpetta's critical analysis of the pathology issues are well thought out and highly informative, as she sifts through the forensic evidence in order to profile the killer. Her assessment of the peculiar affliction of this serial killer is intriguing, providing scientific insight into creatures who were called werewolves, but who may have only been persons with a rare and unusual genetic condition, causing them to be especially hirsute, among other anomalies. Moreover, there are a number of subplots afoot. Dr. Scarpetta, who is recovering from the death of her lover, Wesley Benton, faces a number of problems closer to home. It seems that she has been the victim of identity theft, with her Internet screen name being used to set up a phony chat room, and personally destructive emails being sent falsely under her screen name. To add fuel to the fire, a new Deputy Chief in the Richmond police Department, Diane Bray, and has managed to demote Dr. Scarpetta's long time friend, Homicide Detective Pete Marino. Having her own secret agenda, Bray has turned her sights onto Dr. Scarpetta, desiring to get jurisdiction over the Medical Examiner's Office. Perfidy also exist among Dr. Scarpetta's trusted staff, and her niece Lucy, who is still not operating with a full deck, is on a dangerous, undercover police mission with her lover in Miami, adding yet another worry to Dr. Scarpetta's already full plate. It is the camaraderie between Pete Marino and Dr. Kay Scarpetta, however, that holds this particular book together. Their repartee and dialogue is wonderful, giving evidence of their comfortable and close relationship, without saying so in so many words. They carp as if they were an old married couple. Lucy, Dr. Scarpetta's niece, however, is still a loose cannon, and it is unbelievable that any police agency would allow her to run around with a gun in her hand, given her record for shooting it off. Mercifully, this annoying character has a smaller role than usual in this novel, and the reader may only hope that she will either be written out altogether or get an attitude adjustment. The ending of the book, however, is a little too pat. Dr. Scarpetta's actions in the book's grand finale are not really believable for such an astute and normally cautious woman. Given what she already knows about the killer, her actions in the end bespeak more of the actions of an unknowing civilian. Still, this book does not fail to entertain and is sure to provide reading pleasure for many Kay Scarpetta devotees.
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gut aber nicht ihr bestes, 6. Dezember 2000
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das schoene an ihren buechern ist, dass die charaktere sich weiterentwickeln. schade ist allerdings bei black notice, dass es leider zu ihren schwaecheren buechern gehoert. als scarpetta-fan bleibt man an der handlung dran, aber das interesse an der fortentwicklung sinkt. schade eigentlich.
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Ho-Hum What has happened to Scarpetta, 27. Juli 2000
The Scarpetta novels started with a driven career woman who would not let anything stand in her way, she got on with her life and got the baddies with the help of Police officer Marino, in this installment, Scarpetta is a weak-willed woman, who stalls and strays on her quest for the right answers. Not one of Cornwell's best.
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Well-Written, But Extremely Depressing, 21. Juli 2000
Patrica Cornwell has created such a wonderful character in Kay Scarpetta, but she seems to be running out of ideas. Kay's life is getting so depressing, it's getting progressively harder to read this series. They've now killed off two of her love interests in a row [both in law enforcement], which ranks her just below Sipowicz on NYPD Blue on the unbelievable string of tragedies scale.I still enjoyed this book, but Black Notice was an appropriate name. Because the character is a coroner, and there is so much death and tragedy, Cornwell needs to add at least some reason for these characters [Kay, and her equally depressed neice, Lucy] to want to go on living. The book was good enough to recommend to Cornwell fans, but I won't read her next book unless I am in a really upbeat, resilient mood, so I won't feel like jumping off a bridge when I'm done!
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Great plot and writing; disappointing, weak ending, 20. August 1999
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I thought the writing in the first 3/4 of Black Notice was some of the best Cornwell has delivered. The plot was interesting, multi-faceted and believable; and Kay was definitely, to me, a more three-dimensional, realistic and sympathetic character than in the previous Scarpetta novels. But I did find the romance with Talley, which apparently is "still on" at the (non)end of the book highly implausible. Not because Kay couldn't or shouldn't be able to fall in love with another man after having lost Benton, but simply because he seemed too shallow and immature...mainly a pretty face.... to attract someone like her. But the reeeeally big complaint I have about this book is its incredibly abrupt, rushed-up, totally frustrating ending. Honestly, I kept looking to see if some pages were missing from my copy! An author shouldn't treat her readers in such a cavalier fashion. After having developed the story, with lots of fascinating sub-plots, to that point and then to have Dr. Scarpetta (duh!) open the door to someone who *says* he's a policeman (when we all know who's on the other side of the door and anyone with Kay's brains would be more wary), *then* to rush things from that point to an unrealistic, frustrating non-conclusion (obviously meant to whet our appetites for the next book)...these shortcuts on the author's part combined to ruin the book for me and leave me feeling really cheated when I finished it! I think I've decided to wait and look at other readers' comments on the next Cornwell book, rather than pre-ordering a copy of my own.
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An exciting book! I couldn't stop reading., 24. April 2002
The pathologist Dr Kay Scarpette still didn't get over the death of her lover Benton who has been dead for about a year now. Just then she is given a letter he wrote before his death. She becomes aware of her own problems. She has been occupied with herself but doesn't want to take a day off work. When she is told about problems in her office she is already in the middle of a campaign against her power. She is deceived by a person of her staff but she has to find out what's behind it. In the meantime a monster has made its way to Richmond. By coming closer to his identity she brings herself and her loved ones into mortal danger.
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Another winner!, 19. Juli 2000
Black Notice by Patricia Cromwell 1999I have read and enjoyed the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell for several years and have been impressed with the high quality of the writing and the exciting stories she tells. This book is no exception and as the story flowed I found myself involved from beginning to end and had difficulty putting the book down. From the recovery of an unknown body in a container ships cargo to the streets of Paris the story moves swiftly and when it appears that a murderous psychotic has travelled to Kay's home town the intensity picks up and in the final chapters it is impossible to stop reading. The beautiful and vicious new police chief whose main purpose in life seems to be to get Kay fired provides the hurdles that Kay must jump in order to keep her job and bring the murderer to heel. Kay's niece, Lucy, whose career and love life form a significant subplot keep us engrossed in her development and we wonder if she will survive in the male dominated machismo climate in the ATF. The book opens with a letter from Kay's dead former lover Benton Wesley. Kay's struggle to deal with it forms a thread running through the story providing a sense of reality often missing in other mystery writer's works. And the burning question of all true Kay Scarpetta fans "Will Kay find a replacement for Benton Wesley?" may be answered.
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Another Superb Book, 18. Juli 2000
I have read all of Patricia Cornwell's Books and I was not disappointed in "Black Notice" It was well written, And after reading so much of her character Kay Scarpetta I feel like I almost know her, I can hardly wait for the next book! The supporting cast is strong and you can Identify with all of them, Keep them coming Ms. Cornwell!
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Might Have Been Good..., 15. Juli 2000
Kay Scarpetta was interseting and intriguing in the first books of the series. But now everything seems more of the same and the characters make you madder than ever. It seems that the people in Cornwall's novel have some strange ways of showing their emotions and seem a little too fake at times. Some parts of it seem to copy one of her earlier books, Body of Evidence. This made it seem like the same old story. It's a book that is worth reading but not one that I would run out and buy the instant it hit the shelves. I won't discourage others from reading it but some of her other books are a little better. I can't wait for the next installation in the Kay Scarpetta series, regardless of this book.
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Black notice and betes noires, 5. Juli 2000
Once again Kay Scarpetta is pitched against the hidden monster with some arcane disorder; once again she is flung between law enforcement agencies both compelling and corrupt; once again she is threatened and vulnerable. But will she once again triumph? Here is Patricia Cornwell at her political best: she has matured as a writer and brings to the reader a consideration of the investigative process more developed than the early days of a few cobbled together FBI profiles. In Black Notice, Scarpetta has become smarter than her mentors and tutors: but is she smarter than the beasts, both real and remembered, that pursue her? Readers should not be disappointed.
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