9) Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell (May 6, 2008)
I've been having problems with Patricia Cornwell lately. I just haven't found her books to be as well written or engrossing as they were in the past. However, this new Scarpetta novel almost redeems Cornwell as a writer in my eyes. Scarpetta is facing personal problems with Marino and must try to find a serial killer. Dr. Scarpetta and her team are also under attack by a famous psychiatrist whom Scarpetta testified against in a previous case.
Patricia Cornwell has written a book that is very nearly up to her previous standards, so if you are a fan of her older work, I'd recommend it. As usual with her novels, it has gruesome scenes (Scarpetta is a forensic pathologist after all) and violence so it's not for the faint of heart.
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I couldn't agree more with your remark about Cornwell's "Scarpetta" books falling way short of the mark in recent years.
I just finished a book featuring a young forensic doctor who teams up with an older investigative journalism to fight a threatened massacre in Washington on the 4th of July. It's called Some Kind of Angel and will keep you turning pages. It's a great terroristic thriller.
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