Predator (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Patricia Cornwell (Author), Cristina Martin (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 28, 2007

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston—one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Patricia Cornwell was a crime reporter for the Charlotte Observer, spent six years working for the Virginia Chief Medical Examiner's Office, and helped to establish the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine. She is the author of The Body Farm, Cruel and Unusual, Isle of Dogs, The Last Precinct, Portrait of a Killer, and Postmortem.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Ediciones B (May 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8466629114
• ISBN-13: 978-8466629119
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,756,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wow, what a stinker!, April 10, 2007

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Karen Delaney (Bremerton, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Multiple plot lines flail helplessly, the main characters are deeply annoying~so much so you start to hope the killer will massacre the whole bunch, the end is so anticlamatic that the only way I knew it was over was that I ran out of pages to read. The book grinds along much like something dictated into a tape recorder while the author did something more interesting...like iron underwear. The only thing that keeps me from being really upset is that I got this for $2 at a used book store, so I didn't feel bad about tossing it in the trash after I was done. But I wish I'd bought a coffee with the $2, it would've given me more lasting enjoyment. I believe that this book is the final straw in a progressive downward spiral, and I will not be buying any more of her work...EVER.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cornwell hits a new low, June 20, 2007

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clifford "akitonmyers" (Portland, OR, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Take the first four or so Scarpetta books and you have some of the best mystery writing of the last 30 years. Since then however, the entire series has been descending a set of stairs. Each step taking it further along a path of ruin.

Sadly, in the publishing business, authors often continue to push out one book after another in a series long after it has atrophied in their minds. You need only to look at authors such as Stuart Woods, James Patterson, Martha Grimes, Lee Childs, and Thomas Harris to name only a few for a correlation. For some reason, Cornwell has always thought that to please her readers, she needs to publish the same book over and over again. All you have to do is look at her second in the series and see that it has pretty much the same ending as the first and you will see that she has some serious problems in figuring out how to treat this series as an ongoing evolution.

Scarpetta and her clan have long since stopped growing as characters. Once again her niece is picking up serial killers and Scarpetta is being hounded by perhaps another. (how many serial killers have battled Scarpetta now?) Marino is his old self and Bently is as well.

To sum it up, this book is a mess. Just garbage through and through. It was like torture to try to read and I kept thinking of this book as being a torture for Cornwell to write.


SKIP THIS BOOK!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money..., May 13, 2007

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Annabelle Reeve "opinionated granny" (Aberdeen NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Cornwell used to write excellent crime stories--interesting, intricate, straightforward, satisfying--but something awful happened. Predator is so confusing, I continually went back to find some continuity. The once fascinating characters are now ciphers, placeholders. The bad guys are disgustingly awful. And everything jumps around so crazily, it's like she is trying to see how far she can get into the book without telling us anything. Halfway through I threw the hardcover away. I won't play your game, ever again.