Black Notice | Patricia Cornwell | I Don't Get All of the Negativity Here...

Black Notice | Patricia Cornwell | Death In A Barrel

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Black Notice

	Black Notice Patricia Cornwell Berkley, 2000 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 625 reviews view larger image
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"Patricia Cornwell lights a fire under familiar characters--and sparks her hottest adventure in years," wrote People magazine about Point of Origin, the instant #1 bestseller by America's premier crime writer. "Evil always smolders when it seems to be doused," said The Atlanta Constitution. "Scarpettans know to keep their security systems armed until the next installment."

Now Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean's length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.

The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to INTERPOL's headquarters in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.

In a story that careens across international borders, Black Notice puts Dr. Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.

"No one holds her head higher than Kay Scarpetta. She is for many readers the capable female writ large--a lightning rod for those who would destroy change at any price, yet a formidable champion because of it." --Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle

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I Don't Get All of the Negativity Here...

I just don't get all of the negative reviews here. I guess it is a good thing I don't read them first. I've been reading the Kay Scarpetta series in order, and find this book in some ways better than the previous ones. It is best if you have read Point of Origin first, and ideally all of the other books in the series. This book is pivotal in the character development of Kay I believe. She is not the strong, clear thinking superwoman that she has been in the previous books. The woman is grieving, and fighting it all of the way. It has been a year since Benton's death, or should I say his massacre, and the way she has acted and feels is all too familiar for those who have lost someone so close to them, especially if you have regrets about the time you spent with them.

Tied into all of this is a dead body found in a shipping container on a cargo ship that is unidentified and way into the decomposition process. The details are graphic. Marino and Lucy are also dealing with Benton's death in their own ways, and a central ingredient to that grief process is anger and what people do with that emotion.

Maybe people don't like this book because Kay has changed. I like it for that reason. People change and evolve. I don't like the same old formula repeated over and over again in a series book. In Cornwell's series, her characters are flawed and troubled, nobody is perfect...kind of like this human condition we live in.

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Death In A Barrel

Scarpetta does not find answers to questions she has on the autopsy she has preformed, no name and no cause of death. Scarpetta does have her personal effects and a strange tattoo that stirs her interest. This case takes her to Europe. In her pursuit for answer she puts herself and others in danger. You fly through the story as she flies all over the world. This is one of her best plots. By Ruth Thompson author of "The Bluegrass Dream" and Natchez Above The River"

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