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Predator by Patricia Cornwell
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Kay Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, her boyfriend Benton Wesley team up to investigate murders form Florida to Massachusetts. They may all be related, of course. The world is too small in Cornwell's novels. There don't seem to be any other investigators that get this case. And, one of the culprits always has it out for Lucy, Kay, Marino or Benton, of course. It's all too contrived. That being said the ending came on in 2 pages and left us hanging as to who did what to whom. The why was all supposition which is all unusual for a police procedural based on evidence collection. Not sure why I keep reading the Scarpetta series... ( )
FMRox | Jun 27, 2009 |  
This Scarpetta is an improvement over the previous few in this series. However, it is still nowhere close to the books that started the series. The characters have become completely unlikeable. The plot was better than the last few but still left me a little wanting. I also did not care for the point of view in this one. Oh Patricia, where have you gone? I was such a fan of the first books and you just seem to have wandered off and lost your way somewhere. I read this one because it was on loan from a friend. I don't know how much longer I can keep giving this series another chance. ( )
wcath | Jun 2, 2009 | 1 vote
One of her better books. ( )
cidnee | May 25, 2009 |  
Kay Scarpetta books can be intense and grisly and I have read all but Trace. This one however did not have the same quality as others. The plot was confusing and not as believable as Cornwell's other books in the series. I enjoy the characters of the Scarpetta books: Kay Scarpetta, Marino, Benton and Lucy but in this one even the usual great character development was not as sharp. ( )
janimar | Apr 18, 2009 | 1 vote
Why does she continue to write these books? Money. Why do I continue to read them? That is the real question.... ( )
katet | Dec 3, 2008 |  
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It is Sunday afternoon and Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in her office at the National Forensic Academy in Hollywood, Florida, where clouds are building, promising another thunderstorm. It's not supposed to be this rainy and hot in February.
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God has an IQ of a hundred and fifty.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0399152830, Hardcover)

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.

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