Livid: The new Kay Scarpetta thriller from the No.1 bestseller

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The book opens with Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, being grilled on the stand in a highly emotive murder case. A man is on trial for his life after the body of his girlfriend was found floating in the river after being with him on his boat the night before, & supporters of both sides are in the courtroom & squaring up to each other around Virginia. The prosecutor is trying to make Scarpetta look cold & indifferent to the case & that this has made her sloppy in her interpretation of the evidence, & the judge is giving him latitude way beyond what is normal. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case—an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination by the prosecutor, Scarpetta leaves the court only to discover that the sister of the judge on her case has been found dead. Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta is testifying at a trial and only the defense team is happy about it since she says no one was murdered. The courtroom crowd and prosecutor are openly hostile and the judge seems to be also, even though she is Kay's friend. As soon as Kay's testimony is over, she learns of the suspicious death of the judge's sister. Scarpetta is brilliant, compassionate and humble, excelling in her profession and in diplomacy."— Library Journal, Starred Review for Autopsy

Livid” is Patricia Cornwell’s best work in recent years. “Livid” begins with an unimaginable scene in which the main character, Kay Scarpetta, is placed. She is being pursued relentlessly by a prosecutor to admit that she made a mistake in the autopsy report she issued. The protest demonstrators surrounding the court are reminiscent of the Occupation of Parliament. Was it just an accidental death? Was the husband murdering his wife? Why did the previous forensic pathologist conclude that the drowning was a murder in the first place? From here, the story takes an unexpected turn. Best Books Set in the 1920s — from Stories That Shimmer with Champagne and Social Change, to Rip-roaring Reads Covering Crime, Colonialism and Beyond. A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller -- BBC The Agatha Christie of the DNA age - EXPRESSMy central nervous system spikes and surges, my pulse pounds. I am sweating.... "" If only readers would share this response with Cornwell's immensely popular Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief Continue reading » The fourth mystery to feature Virginia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after All That Remains ) is the most intricately plotted and fully characterized novel yet in Cornwell's admirable Continue reading » Allerdings hätte es für mich persönlich insgesamt weitaus weniger technische Details bedurft. An dieser Stelle kommt mir Patricia Cornwell wie eine Lehrerin vor. Sie gibt gerne detailliertes Expertenwissen an die Leser weiter. Schließlich war sie vor ihrer Schriftstellerei tatsächlich Gerichtsmedizinerin. has indomitable medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning to her office in Richmond five years after being Continue reading »

SCARPETTA'S 26TH OUTING AND THE PLOTTING REMAINS EVERY BIT AS FRESH AS WHEN WE WERE INTRODUCED TO HER' BELFAST TELEGRAPH I’ve read most of the Scarpetta books. This one I am glad to say may be my last if Cornwell’s return to the character is as mindless as this one is. Here is a summary so you won’t have to waste your time. Deshalb kann ich trotzdem ruhigen Gewissens eine Leseempfehlung für das amerikanische Original geben. Es sind interessante Figuren rund um Scarpetta, die Ermittlungen sind spannend und das Ende ist überraschend. Obwohl das Auftreten von Scarpetta nicht zum ersten Mal stattfindet, und es schon viele Romane mit dieser Gerichtsmedizinerin gibt, muss man nicht alle anderen Romane zuvor gelesen haben. Dieser Thriller steht für sich und was man über das Universum von Patricia Cornwells Scarpetta wissen muss, erfährt man auch in diesem Roman. funding scholarships and literacy programs. Her advice to aspiring authors: “Start writing. And don’t take no for an answer.”

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Goes well beyond our protagonist’s usual forensic science and shows just how versatile she can be."— BookReporter.com