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Title: The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0-425-18063-8 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.94 (360 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exciting!
Comment: In Patricia Daniels Cornwell's, THE LAST PRECINCT, Scarpetta puts a killer behind bars, but subsequent murders link him to the crimes!
Exciting from page one on! The characters are exciting and the plot to die for!
(Must Read Thriller!)
Rating: 5
Summary: Cornwell resurrects her career?
Comment: I've had a complicated relationship with Cornwell. I think her first four or five novels are just great suspense thrillers. But her Scarpetta series became increasingly bleak and tortured and I gave up on them after Point of Origin, which seemed to be chock-full of obtrusive personal mannerisms, and didn't even bother to read Black Notice. Someone gave me The Last Precinct and I only started reading it because I was bored -- and almost put it down after the dreary first 100 pages.
But around 125 pages in, Cornwell stops concentrating on Scarpetta's damaged psyche -- some of the criticisms here of the psychologizing are valid -- and resumes doing what she does best, deftly-plotted forensic mysteries. The book came alive and was incredily suspensful after that point. I made the mistake of reading it when I was alone at home and was often so afraid I couldn't move. Cornwell has the unique ability to absolutely jolt one upright with surprising plot developments. Last Precinct has several such moments and the plot hangs together in a very believable, if dark way. This is a superb thriller and I heartily recommend it. It's also clearly part of a series - Blowfly, her next book, continues the story.
So I highly recommend this book. One piece of advice: Cornwell more than any other suspense writer needs to be read in sequence. If you are thinking of reading a Cornwell, start with her excellent first novel Postmortem and read them in order of publication. Last Precinct is not comprehensible to those who don't know Point of Origin, although I didn't read Black Notice (Last Precinct starts minutes after the dramatic conclusion of Black Notice).
Rating: 1
Summary: She's in a rut. It may be over.
Comment: It was not long ago that I would look for a new Patricia Cornwell novel with excitement. However when she started to write about people other than Kay Scarpeta things went down hill fast. First I stopped buying any but her Scarpetta books and now I will not buy those books either. This book is as bad as her early books are good, and they are very good indeed. Read the first second or third in the series and stop before you get to ten and you will be fine, nobody has written better, but this one is just plain bad.
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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: 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: 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: Cause of Death by Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Marx ISBN: 0425158616 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: From Potter's Field by Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Don Peppers ISBN: 0425154092 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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