Product Review
In Predator, longtime fans of the Scarpetta novels get reacquainted with familiar characters and some new deviants. This time though, Cornwell kicks it up a notch, introducing even more compelling villains who do things like torture people with bugs. Cornwell is as inventive as Scarpetta is rigid and thorough.
As the book opens, Kay is trying to spend a romantic week in snowed-in Boston with Benton Wesley. They have not seen each other for a while and have been looking forward to this winter holiday for weeks. But a phone call triggers a series of events that force them to postpone.
In her fourteenth Kay Scarpetta mystery, Patricia Cornwell has woven her characters into elements of the same case (albeit without their knowledge). They are all on edge about their personal lives, relationships, and especially their long dependence upon and affection for each other. In Predator, long-buried resentments, unresolved anger and desperation erupt among the members of this once cohesive in-group, thus setting forth a novel essentially structured around the collective ennui of the regular characters. Once the threads of each event are untangled and a clear picture emerges, readers will agree that Predator is one of Patricia Cornwell's best works to date.
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