Chaos by Patricia Cornwell
Cornwell’s fans
will welcome the latest Kay Scarpetta
mystery. It starts with a public spat between the ever prickly Scarpetta
and Bryce, her chief of staff, the day before she’s to give an address at
Harvard. Another complication is her
apprehension about her sister Dorothy flying in to be in the audience. She has
no idea why her sister is coming since she hasn’t been to Cambridge to see her
in eight years. Maybe she wants, at long last, to be friends?
Scarpetta is
stunned to find out someone called nine-one-one about her dust up with Bryce.
That, and other oddities, lead Pete Marino, a Cambridge Police Investigator, to
believe that someone is out to get her. When a young woman she has had a couple
of passing encounters with ends up dead, she’s called to the scene to
investigate. The area is having an intense heat wave. The decision is made to
enclose the area of the park where the mysterious young woman met her death,
which is also mysterious, and most of the action of the book takes place inside
this chaotic crime scene, stifling hot and full of the stench of death. Her
spectacularly mismatched FBI husband is involved in the case, causing another
layer of tension. Then there’s the fact that Pete Marino may be wanting to become
involved with her sister Dorothy, a thought that horrifies Scarpetta.
Following the
twists of the cyber hacking, and the delving into the death of the young woman,
will give Cornwell fans another great read with their favorite neurotic medical
examiner. Have fun!
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