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Southern Cross

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Having read many of the Ms Cornwell's books, I found this one most disappointing. I rarely put a book down without completing, but I found this book disjointed and not up to Ms Cornwell's normal standard. I forced myself to read about half way thru hoping there would be an improvement but finally gave up.

I have enjoyed several of Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, but found this story hard to finish. The story is implausible in just about every respect from beginning to end. The Richmond Police Chief, her deputy and their young assistant are brought in from Charlotte on a short-term (one-year????) federal grant to clean up the Richmond department. No way is that going to happen. They all freak out when a kid hacks in to the Richmond cops computer system - don't they have an IT department? Somehow, this invasion cripples police computers all over the world! The story reels to an absurd conclusion when the police and interested bystanders play 'dog pile on the rabbit' to stop the bad guy, but somehow the chief herself has to come to the rescue.

A bad book ay any price.

I love Patricia Cornwell and particularly the Scarpetta books, but this was unreadable for me. I sat down one night and read 80 pages and just quit. I was bored, unhappy with where I could see the plot was headed - graphic juvenile violence - and creeped out.

I feel bad saying these things because in the past I have eagerly awaited each new Cornwell novel, but I wish I hadn't wasted my time or money on this one.

I'm an IT person and I laughed throughout this entire book, that's how silly it is. This is completely dumb. The entire plot is dumb.