Livid: The new Kay Scarpetta thriller from the No.1 bestseller

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The primary action and major plot developments occur outside of the primary characters and offstage from the reader. I live in Alexandria, so it was kind of fun to have the story centered in an area I am very familiar with.

Cornwell is not creating something new and refreshing, but rather continues to rely on her plotting methodology of solving a mystery over a condensed two-to-three-day timeframe, an approach that she established and perfected, then used repetitively over and over again until it just got old. Working with a solid foundation, Patricia Cornwell keeps readers intrigued with a solid narrative that moves as quickly as any book I have read. Livid was terrifying for a whole range of contemporary reasons,not least for the reminder of the unfettered acceptance of public displays of gun carrying in the USA, particularly when those toting them are unhinged, fanatical and full of hate. Keeping the reader in the heart of the story, Cornwell adds characters who enhance things in their own ways, while never letting their presence overtake the momentum of good writing.Sphere is home to some of the world's best-loved authors and books, ranging from Jenny Colgan and Carole Matthews to Mark Billingham, Val McDermid and even Gwyneth Paltrow.

I felt that the author spent a lot of time describing the setting in such detail that she lost focus on what the goal was - writing a story that made you want to turn the page quickly, trying to figure out “who did it”? Scarpetta holds the key to the forensic evidence and her word, should it be taken serial by the jury, could free a man or condemn him forever. Cornwell received widespread attention and praise for her series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. Scarpetta and Marino discover some odd burn patters that could mean something even more problematic, as everything points to a new age weapon. Kay Scarpetta, who keeps us coming back to Patricia Cornwell's sprawling crime novels, is one tough broad.I would like to thank both Netgalley and Little Brown Book Group UK for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. Plot twists emerge throughout that help accentuate the thriller angle, leaving the reader gasping at times. The story starts out with Kay testifying in Old Town Alexandria regarding the alleged murder of a young woman by her husband. In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem , while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia.