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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Kay Scarpetta series......fast moving and enjoyable.....but follows similair storyline of past Scarpetta novels...including the attempt on Kays life -- a little formulatic but good (  ) KC9333 | Jul 5, 2009 |  I enjoyed this book; just enough mythic element to creep you out a little, but not enough to overdo it. I do not see the downhill slide that others see. Good study in grief. I could have done without the standard attempt on Scarpetta at the end. Unfortunately, this book is spoiled by its sequel. (  ) Darrol | Jun 13, 2009 | Cornwell's a great writer, but this wasn't one of her best. The sheer violence made it hard to read, but it was too good to stop. There is a second book--I think--and I'm looking forward to it in a grim sort of way. The single up-close-and-personal scene with Dr. Kay Scarpetta and a man was too quick and seemed somewhat contrived. Dr. K was on the rebound, but it seemed something of a compromise of her high ethics. (  ) chuffman | May 16, 2009 | After reading of Cornwell's books this one fills in some background info on the hairy man. (  ) amacmillen | Mar 12, 2009 | Scarpetta/Merino/Lucy investigate murders involving a werewolf-like man. (  ) FMRox | Mar 12, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0425175405, Paperback)The postmortem is in--Black Notice, the 10th in Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series, is a gore-splattered, intensely exciting read. As winter grips Richmond, Virginia, an air of somberness pervades chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's world. Her beloved niece Lucy is involved in a dangerous undercover police operation in Miami, and auntie fears for her life. A tyrannical new deputy chief, Diane Bray, wants to get Kay's department under her jurisdiction. Meanwhile, back at the office, someone has tinkered with the e-mail system, stealing Kay's identity, and sending off slanderous and hurtful messages. Emotionally battered, Scarpetta fears she is going insane. Or, could it be that someone is deliberately sowing this harvest of sorrow?Despite her personal problems, Scarpetta is still the reigning diva at the department of death. She is sent to investigate the putrefied remains of a man found inside a container ship, "eyes bulged froglike, and the scalp and beard were sloughing off with the outer layer of darkening skin." Kay finds strange, animal-like hairs on the man's clothing--the same hairs that she discovers on a murdered store clerk a few days later. In actuality, the bizarre killings extend well beyond Virginia; whoever killed the Richmond victims also butchered people in France. Kay and police captain Pete Marino are whisked off to Paris where they must collect top-secret information from a Paris morgue, and avoid becoming victims themselves. This macabre tome is the stuff that classic Scarpetta tales are made of: creepy but compulsive autopsy scenes, plentiful plot twists, and the compelling, if slightly more vulnerable chief medical examiner herself. --Naomi Gesinger (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:30:05 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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