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Red Mist

By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Lorelei King
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Summary

On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer.

Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out..

Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace. Driven by inner forces, Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding’s death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.

And she is the only one who can stop it.

©2011 CEI Enterprises, Inc. (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.

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Definitely my last Scarpetta

I already found Port Mortuary rather disturbing and in the end totaly inplausible. Now Cornwell picks up her new novel exactly at that point. In the first half she keeps explaining the unbelievable turns and twists of the prior story and adds a lot of gruesome details of another scene which I found way to descriptive.
This goes on and on and the only thing that actually happens in the present is that she meets the mother of the woman who tried to kill her and who in return is the daughter of her former assistant who got the woman she visits in jail pregnant when he was 12 years old and who is dead now - partly because of his addiction to steroids ... get my point ?
Eventually things travel into the presence when Jamie Burger conspires with Marino and the rest of the gang show up but the action still hit me only from behind and I could not at all relate to the motives of the characters. All of this was topped by a finale which is so very far fetched and coincidental that I could hardly believe Patricia Cornwell authorized the publication of the book unless she did not reread it.I really am sorry as I've been a great fan of Cornwell and her Scarpetta Novels.

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A disappointment!

If you take out all the unnecessary detail which only serves to show off how knowledgeable Cornwell is on up to date forensic technology, the story is only enough to fill a short novella. It is mildly interesting in that it furthers the thread from the last book along, but overall not satisfying. More style than substance, it doesn't even adequately flesh out the characters we have come to know and the new ones critical to the book. I loved the early series, but don't think I will bother anymore. I also found the narrator not especially pleasant to listen to either.

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Very disappointing

I know Patricia Cornwell is always extremely detailed in her novels. But this was very slow, very detailed and not a great story. Really disappointed.

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Five stars across the board

I've listened to other Patricia Cornwall books with the same narrator. I think this was her best performance I've listened to. Kept guessing until quite close to the end & how everything ties up made this unmissable I feel.

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Slow

Took a long time to build up to not a great deal. Have thoroughly enjoyed Ms Cornwal in the past, but this story didn't grab me.

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Boring and predictable

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Patricia seems to have lost interest but still churns out these Scarpetta novels

Would you ever listen to anything by Patricia Cornwell again?

Read them all to date but won't buy any more

What didn’t you like about Lorelei King’s performance?

She was fine but the material she had to read was second rate

What character would you cut from Red Mist?

Take your pick they are all cardboard

Any additional comments?

Patricia you can do better! Write something worth reading or cut Scarpetta and think up a new character...please

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  • 08-05-12

Formulaic

I found this completely formulaic and predicatable. A droning series of names and descriptions, unlikely scenarios and unimaginable leaps in logic. I used to like Patricia Cornwell but this is so poor I won't be coming her way again. My advice is don't bother - there are many better authors out there.

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Thank goodness Loralei King is back!!

She is by far the best narrator. A good story, well paced, as always. Looking forward to the next one

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Cornwell is fabulous, as always

Lorelei King embodies the characters penned by Cornwell and keeps you gripped until the end.

in this book, you see how Kay's lives intersect and cause her conflicts which need to be managed. Cornwell captures this and takes you through the journey with Kay so you also feel that you are seeing the evidence, feeling the guilt and making those decisions too.

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fab lady

all thses series of books this again keeps you griped keeps you on the edage of you seat you get attached to the cractors

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