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Rent Red Mist (A Scarpetta Novel)
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 544
Synopsis
Freelance forensic scientist Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a colleague, the unsolved slaying of a family, as well as a string of brutal killings that seem to have their origin, or at least a point of connection, around an inmate in the Georgia Prison for Women. A convicted sex-offender, this woman is also the mother of an elusive killer. Scarpetta's investigation uncovers the links between these crimes, while also revealing a conspiracy much more widespread and dangerous than even this experienced investigator initially imagined. Bestselling author Patricia Cornwell injects her novel with as much gruesome violence as one of her villains injects Botox into victims. Full of examples of creatively brutal acts like this one committed by women, this 19th novel in the Scarpetta series carries the message that women can be the heroes as well as the evildoers.
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Reviews
There is no doubt that Patricia Cornwell is a good writer and I have learned a few things about forensics from her books. It seems that every novel she writes gets more boring and I spend my time plodding through the 500 pages only to be rewarded with a feeling of disappointment and regret I spent so much time on it. That is doubly true with RED MIST. It is rare I dont finish a book but I deserted this book a number of times before I was thankfully done. To me it was just the same old, same old and a repetition of past events and characters behavior. Her books are never uplifting and I feel a sneeze of hopelessness when i read one. I am not always looking for happy endings. I am realistic enough to know life isnt always good but I would like something *positive* from her novels and it is just not there to me. It is not Scarpetta as much as her other characters I dislike. They are always the same and I dont see any growth in them. I have to identify with a character or I cant enjoy a book no matter how well it is written. So not the greatest reading experience for me this time and I recommend skipping it and if a person hasnt read anything by Cornwell before i suggest reading her earlier novels which in my opinion are much better than RED MIST.