Black Notice (Scarpetta)
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Unfortunately, these situations are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Before she can finish the autopsy on “Container Man,” Kay discovers that her grief-driven blinders have hidden from her several very serious problems that have occurred over the last few weeks in her own office. One is the almost daily theft of everything from cell phones to paper clips from the more open areas of the Medical Examiner’s Office. At least Agatha Christie aged her characters normally. If she were alive, I’m sure she would bitch slap Patricia Cornwell. In a sleepy seaside town outside Copenhagen, a strange light at the bottom of the harbour has the police call in a military diver with a speciality in wet crime scenes. Deep down in the dark water sits a car, with the dead body of a young woman in the driver’s seat. The dead woman seems to have been the victim of a sadistic surgery. This particular book is an odd one (a wolf like guy kills people) and the storyline will get stretched over several books like your Christmas sweater. You can stretch it out, but it looks like crap when you actually wear it. After earning her degree in English from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer.
Thomas Chandonne – Son of a powerful, rich family in Paris. He was found in a container at a port in Richmond. Heavily decomposed, his cause of death undetermined. She also got several other awards, including the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure, the British John Creasey Award, and the American Edgar Award. Seven unnamed women in France – Ages range from twenty-one to fifty-two. All facial structures were broken. There were subdural hematomas, bleeding over the brain and into the chest cavity. There were multiple bite marks. They were all found barefoot, with their clothing ripped open from the waist up. Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, in 1990 while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature.
The French serial killer is high class and is kept a secret by his family. He has a rare illness where his face is deformed and he has hair growing on him. So he calls himself the werewolf. He ends up at Scarpetta's and in the end Lucy ends up pointing a gun at him but Kay talks her out of shooting him. In another storyline, her niece Lucy hasn't found a way to grieve Benton's death either and is courting danger as she usually turns to violence to solve problems. And if that weren't enough, a sexy-looking cop with connections is taking over the police department and threatening to take over the medical examiner's office as well. Her name is Bray, and she's determined to get rid of both Marino and Scarpetta. You can imagine, if you're familiar with the character, how Marino reacts to this. Thirdly, the four-months new Deputy Chief, Diane Bray, arrives on scene, oozing power, seduction and entitlement with every step, the epitome of sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. Bray makes it clear to Kay that she is responsible for the new protocols at the crime scene and that she has deliberately reassigned Marino so as to break up the professional relationship between Marino and Kay. And Bray goads her about Benton’s death.
Some of the articles she wrote on prostitution and crime in the downtown Charlotte area brought her a lot of attention, praise, and respect, and this is when she received her first award, the North Carolina Press Association’s Investigative Reporting Award. Everyone is out to harrass and hurt dear Kay, as usual, until in the end she calls in a few favours of her thousands of powerful friends that come out of nowhere, just like the many luxury items she buys in some limbo time. I've tried hard to stop rereading paragraphs to make sense of mistakes, not just in missing sentences or information, but also in contradicting descriptions of place, all the more annoying because detailing every move always made up most of Cornwell's novels. She still phones up a French restaurant owner at home instead of googling a word, so it's no surprise she skips over to Europe for a bit again. Over the years, the author sold over 100 million books all over the world and her novels were translated into close to 40 languages. An interesting side note is that the author appeared as herself on TV in one of the Criminal Minds episodes, “True Genius.”Fox 2000 bought the rights to Kay Scarpetta. Working with producer Liz Friedman, Marvel’s Jessica Jones and fellow Marvel EP and Twilight Saga scribe Melissa Rosenberg to develop the film and find Scarpetta a home on the big screen. funding scholarships and literacy programs. Her advice to aspiring authors: “Start writing. And don’t take no for an answer.”
The book starts off with Kay grieving the loss of Benton which I can't decide if I like or not. At least it shows a new sign of Kay when she really goes down hill but on the other hand it's also something that veers away from the murders and such. She attended Davidson College where she earned her English degree in 1979. She got her first job the same year, working for the Charlotte Observer where she did various jobs, starting from listing TV programs to covering the police beat.
Book Summary
The one positive constant throughout the books is the character of Marino, a police officer who is mixture of a drunken circus bear, Archie Bunker and Columbo. This guy is about as un-PC as a character can get and breathes a little corrosive energy into the stale air of the later series.
My friend periodically gives me bags full of books she's read and I found this one in the last batch. It's been ages since I've read a Cornwell/Dr. Scarpetta book, just long enough for me to miss them and really enjoy this one. There is more oh-godding and yay-death-penalty, but again, just an escalation of her norm. Added up, I think she must do some political free lancing since she doesn't do regular work otherwise yet harps on and on about success-less people undermining the great. Very unlikable new characters in the precinct and they're also a whole lotta shady. It's also a prelude to Scarpetta moving on to other things and Marino keeps being demoted and promoted so there's lots going on in terms of their careers. Also, Lucy and Kay have a fight after a long time getting along so there's a lot of tumultuous relationships in this one.
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Her first novel, Postmortem, was written during this time, and while initially it was not successfully received, it was eventually published, and it became the first book in her popular crime series. This basically launched her writing career.The author is living in Boston where she is working on her next book. The body of the man in the cargo container has a note with it. This note bids farewell to “le loup-garou,” a French phrase that translates as “werewolf.” However, this cryptic note is just one of the increasingly perplexing problems that will confront Kay within the next 24 hours. First, when she arrives on scene, there are none of the typical responders present, no CSI people, no ambulance, no recovery team, no one but a lone female rookie detective with a surly attitude. Secondly, when Marino arrives at the scene, Kay learns that he is no longer a homicide detective and has been reassigned as a night shift watch commander and, thus, shouldn’t be there at all. Elegant, trumpet-like lilies, she thought. But there was something off. Something not right. It was the colour. It was strange, sort of pale and flesh-coloured… Kay Scarpetta has not handled Benton Wesley’s death well. She has worked herself into the ground. She has distanced herself from her friends and employees. She has even started smoking again. She is mired in guilt and regret over every unkind word she ever spoke to Benton. No, Kay Scarpetta is not handling her grief well at all.
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