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Trace | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 5923
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0751530778
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780751530773
ASIN: 0751530778
Publication Date: April 25, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Break out the champagne: Patricia Cornwell has thankfully moved on from her controversial campaign to lay the Jack the Ripper murders at the door of the painter Walter Sickert, and in Trace is again raising our pulse rate by taking us into the dangerous world of consultant pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta. In this latest outing, Kay finds herself back in Virginia examining a curious death, that of the youthful Gilly Paulson. Joel Marcus, her successor as Chief Medical Examiner, has summoned a reluctant Scarpetta to help out, but her professional work is compromised by her unhappiness at the radical changes occurring in her old territory: Scarpetta's old morgue has been bulldozed, and she isn't happy working with the man who took her job. Other members of the familiar Scarpetta crew make an appearance: her partner Benton Wesley and her niece Lucy Farinelli are tracking down an assailant who has nearly ended the life of one of Lucy's colleagues. The two cases turn out to be connected (surprise!), and soon several lives are at stake. After the recent misfires, it's a relief to note that Patricia Cornwell is back on track, dealing comfortably with her most familiar protagonist and a plot that yokes in bomb-makers and some bizarre sexual practices. A resounding welcome back, to both Ms Cornwell and Ms Scarpetta.--Barry Forshaw
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 First and last March 6, 2008
Emma T. (U.K.)
This is the first, and I have to say last, Cornwell book that I've read. I can see from reviews that the earlier books in the Scarpetta series are seemingly superior to this one - but I have to say that after reading this one I really can't be bothered to try any more. With its weird writing style, meandering plotline, random and seemingly un-connected characters, and wholly unsatisfying ending this book is really not worth the effort.
Disappointing October 12, 2007
J. Hayhurst
I really loved the Kay Scarpetta series, even when Benton quite unbelievably came back from the dead. But this is a world away from the previous books. The writing style is different and it does come across as if Cornwell has run out of ideas. I didn't even finsh the book and would not recommend it to anyone.
Trace August 21, 2007
Rich (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I start the review by saying this is better than 'Blowfly' but still this book stinks. There is no narrative drive to the story....things happen with no urgency or sense of importance.
Cornwell persists with her new narrative style. It is so irritating. Again she tells you everything that goes on, how the characters are thinking and feeling, but with no room for the reader to make up their own minds about the characters. It is patronising and rather lazy, hence this IS a very easy read. You don't have to think about any of it. A disappointment. Cornwell has done much better.
A rather sad attempt ... August 18, 2007
Marley T (UK)
I love the Scarpetta series and loved most other books but this one was very disappointing and reading it seemed like she only wanted to fill the pages to meet her quota.
The story wasn't very original and she often repeated the same sentence or wording within the same paragraph - did no one edit the book?
I have so far not rated any of her books with 1 star but this books was unfortunately really not good at all.
 why the change June 26, 2007
Mrs. D. Ford (england)
i read the first few books in this series and was hooked, not what i normally read, then i got to the last three and what happened, as i read them all one after the other changing from first person to 3rd person really spoilt the series. i cannt understand why anyone would do that. maybe if i had read them as they came out it wouldnt have made much difference as theres a time gap and you read other things but it really spoilt it for me although i will be waiting for the book of the dead to come out
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