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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Kay Scarpetta, medical examiner, is one of my favorite crime thriller characters. While there's less action than in Patricia Cornwall's earlier novels, in reading Red Mist, I was happy to be back in the company of Kay, her husband, forensic psychiatrist Benton Wesley, her brilliant niece, Lucy Farinelli; and investigator Pete Marino. Red Mist opens with Kay arriving in Savannah for the purpose of talking with an inmate at the Georgia Prison for Women, to learn more about the circumstances that resulted in the murder of her former assistant, Jack Fielding(in Cornwall's earlier book, Port Mortuary). If you choose to listen to the book, you'll enjoy Kate Reading's performance. ( ) A lot better and more lucid than her last few works, but I found the all engrossing plot of Jaime Berger annoying, especially towards the end, because of plot twists that I shall not mention here. There is also a lot less drama between Marino, Lucy and Benton. The beginning is sort of murky, but it gets better as you read along. no reviews | add a review
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Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it. No library descriptions found. |
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