Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13)

Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1-bestselling crime writer.Dr. The heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Marino dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with

still felt hurt and shunned by a city she once loved and respected Linda Murphy on *A compelling thriller by author Patricia Cornwall, featuring one of her infamous charachters, Dr. Kay Scarpetta!!.Arriving in Richmond, Virginia, after five long years former Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta still felt hurt and shunned by a city she once loved and respected only to have them turn their backs on her. Relocating to South Florida five years later, Kay is more than surprised when she receives a phone call from her successor requesting her help to consult on a bazaar . Another Disappointment Ides of March I keep buying and reading the Scarpetta series hoping that Cornwell will wow me as she did early in the series. NO success with TRACE.Cornwell has developed a formula that is growing more tired with every new entry to this, once promising, series. I no longer care about Lucy's dysfunctional relationships, Kay and Benton's past that, seemingly, Kay cannot get beyond, Marino's strange fixation with Kay despite the fact that they have worked closely together for more years than most couples a. Not a trace Sarah S. Groshong A few years ago I gave up on Patricia Cornwell after her star, Scarpetta, devolved into a self-absborbed, petulant, adolescent poseur, noted more for her vitriol than her virtue. Then came the promising reviews of this latest effort that hinted at a return to the kind of work we had once expected of Ms. Cornwell. And so I bought "Trace", approaching it with eager anticipation, but was unfortunately delivered little more than disappointment. I found the character development to be non-exist

BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection. Cumbersome backstory slows the action, but in general the old Scarpetta comes through, at least in the main, and this will be enough to reassure her many fans and carry them over until her next appearance. Meanwhile, Scarpetta's niece Lucy, owner of a fabulously successful private-eye firm, has her own troubles trying to sort out who attempted to kill her friend Henri (short for Henrietta), who's now under psychiatric treatment by Scarpetta's lover in Aspen, Benton Wesley. All rights reserved. Marcus is generally loathed: he's petty, inept, has a secret garbage-truck phobia and harbors an intense hatred for Scarpetta. . Dr. Lurking in the background is Edgar Allan Pogue, a nutcase who has a thing for dead bodies and a grudge agains