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 ReviewsIsle of Dogs
"Move over Carl Hiaasen, you've got company. Patricia Cornwell has switched to Hiaasen's world of black humor and nearly conquers it."—San Francisco Examiner
"Cornwell has coined a new penny."—USA Today
Southern Cross
"A pluperfect page-turner that surpasses everything she has produced thus far."—The State
"Awe-inspiring."—The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)
"Cornwell brings an edgy authority, a gimlet eye for her city, and a taste for nonstop conflict to the police novel."—Kirkus Reviews
"Cornwell will score more readers who clamber for their next fix...entertaining."—Naples Daily News
Hornet's Nest
"[Patricia Cornwell] trains her sights on a big-city police department... An interesting police department it is...The crimes are intriguing."—Hartford Courant
"An up-to-snuff whodunit."—Associated Press
And the Kay Scarpetta novels...
The Last Precinct
"Ignites on the first page...Cornwell has created a character so real, so compelling, so driven that this reader has to remind herself regularly that Scarpetta is just a product of an author's imagination."—USA Today
"Plots within plots, fraught atmosphere and unrelenting suspense keep readers on tenterhooks while one trap after another springs under unwary feet. Cunningly designed, ingeniously laid out, composed with Cornwellian skill, this far-from-the-Last Precinct is a model of the art."—Los Angeles Times
"The most unexpected of the Kay Scarpetta novels so far...The Last Precinct may just be a terrific first step toward something even more exhilarating."—The Miami Herald
"One of Ms. Cornwell's better novels...A page-turner that will engage, surprise, and engross readers to the final page."—The Richmond Times Dispatch
Black Notice
"Brainteasing...one of the most savage killers of her career...[a] hair-raising tale with a French twist."—People
"The author's darkest and perhaps best...a fast-paced, first-rate thriller."—The San Francisco Examiner
"When [Scarpetta's] in one of her cut-'em-up moods, you want to follow her anywhere...a series that keeps picking up velocity."—The New York Times
"The forensic sequences boom with authority; the brief action sequences explode on the page...A thunderhead of disquietude hangs over this compulsively readable novel."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"It is fascinating to watch Scarpetta and her supporting cast...become more and more themselves...especially in such a brilliantly paced adventure as this one."—Kirkus Reviews
"The bare outline does not do justice to the ingenuity Ms. Cornwell used in creating her story, combining her knowledge of forensic medicine, her research in law-enforcement techniques, and her skill in building tension and dread of evil."—The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Point of Origin
"Cornwell lights a fire under familiar characters—and sparks her hottest adventure in years."—People
"Packed with action and suspense."—Rocky Mountain News
"Sears its way into the psyche...Ablaze with Cornwell's finest, scariest writing."—Atlanta Journal Constitution
"Fans will rejoice: It's classic Patricia Cornwell."—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Her most engrossing effort in years...By the time you get to the gruesome denouement, you're emotionally spent, but satisfied."—Los Angeles Times
"Fans...will welcome this tale of twisted minds and the gory havoc they cause...chilling."—Publishers Weekly
"Creepy doings ...The technical material...continues to fascinate."—The Wall Street Journal
Unnatural Exposure
"Relentlessly intense...Stark and gripping...Scarpetta is back on her game and in peak form."—New York Times Book Review
"Thrilling...Once again we see the ingenuity and bravery that have made [Scarpetta] so appealing."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Almost mythic darkness...Scarpetta's palpable terror, so close to paranoia, lends her world a gothic atmosphere in which evil verges on the supernatural."—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A doozy...Cunningly plotted...Medically propelled like the best of Cornwell's work, Unnatural Exposure will quickly have hypochondriacs squirming in their chairs."—People
Cause of Death
"Gripping reading...So hard to put down your arms will tingle with intimations of rigor mortis before you reach the smashing climax."—New York Newsday
"Cause of Death describes cutting-edge forensic techniques in fascinating detail. Dr. Scarpetta herself continues to fascinate, with a sensibility in which clinical objectivity and human concerns coexist convincingly."—Wall Street Journal
"Cornwell is such a master of narrative pacing that once Cause of Death has been started, it is still all but impossible to put it down until the final page."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"She is a meticulous researcher and a talented writer with an unerring eye for detail...Her major characters are vivid and complex."—Boston Globe
From Potter's Field
"A terrific read, perhaps the best entry in the Scarpetta series yet."—New York Daily News
"Complex and convincing...fascinating and original."—Los Angeles Times
"Creepy complications, combined with the downright macabre atmosphere of this tale make From Potter's Field a frantic, and at times, surreal thriller."—Washington Post Book World
"Dr. Scarpetta is no cardboard heroine—she's smart, lonely, fighting her own demons, and this bleak tale is horrifying and mesmerizing in equal measure."—Cosmopolitan
The Body Farm
"The Body Farm is Cornwell at her chilling best...A murdered child, a distraught mother and clues that suggest the return of a serial killer...This one is chock-full of the very latest in dazzling forensic technology...[will] keep the reader pinned to the chair."—USA Today
"Convincing...chilling."—Time
"Ingenious."—Washington Post Book World
"All the pacing and suspense that Cornwell fans have come to expect...Will cause a few sleepless nights."—People
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