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Title: Southern Cross by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0-425-17254-6 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.83 (519 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hi-five, Pat! A brilliant departure from Scarpetta!
Comment: Patricia Cornwell gambled... and won! Why is everyone whining about the fact she is doing the Hornet's Nest/Southern Cross series in third-person? It's fantastic! Don't get me wrong - I was skeptical at first, since I am a die-hard Scarpetta fan. But the genius in this new style, this new group of diverse characters, was immediatley apparent. This series frees Cornwell to show her incredible comedic abilities. Ms. Cornwell skillfully conveys the thoughts and personalities of each character, often so humorously that this reader found herself wiping tears of laughter from her cheeks. It is this humorous approach that makes Cornwell's descriptions of specific criminal acts and tragic events so startling and heartbreaking. The extreme contrast makes for a perfect symmetry.
To all the "nay-sayers" who have shredded a most amazing author to bits for this series, I say, "Small minds insist upon upholding what is familiar and constant. Rigid minds resist change. Thank God Patricia Cornwell is neither small nor rigid. May she never allow herself to boxed in by public opinion."
Rating: 2
Summary: Not my favorite Cornwell read
Comment: This one misses the mark for me. Try another like the Body Farm to enjoy this talented writer. From Potter's Field was also a good read.
Rating: 2
Summary: The "Plan 9 From Outer Space" of detective fiction.
Comment: Southern Cross is too ridiculous to be a detective novel, to violent to be a comic novel. This is my first venture into Cornwell. I have been told that her Scarpetta novels are better. I may try one of them one day, but I am too astounded by this book to try another or her soon.
Starting with a character named Buttner (called Butt) Fluck, aka Bubba, a blue-blooded southern aristocrat with an Austrian accent who speaks English like Chico Marx, and a thoroughly dislikable bad guy who is a well dressed, well groomed white guy with suspicious eyes, who gets sexually aroused by robbing and later by killing people.
When one watches a farce on stage, on knows that all of the characters are going to interact with each other and there will be no outside characters. Southern Cross is just such a farce. The coincidences never stop.
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Title: Hornet's Nest by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 042516098X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0425163407 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Point of Origin by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0425169863 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Black Notice by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0425175405 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0425180638 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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