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Chaos
Kay Scarpetta (Related to this series)
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- Narrator
- Susan Ericksen
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 20 October 2016
- Run Time
- 13 hours 2 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Someone is following you…
One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Someone is taunting you…
Meanwhile, people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls. Could they be linked to Scarpetta’s anonymous cyber stalker, Tailend Charlie?
Someone wants to destroy you…
A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core. Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn’t exist on earth. And it’s clear that someone, or something, is coming for her, and is hell-bent on creating chaos…
Critics Review
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Praise for Chaos:
‘Slick, fast-paced and brilliant’ Heat
Praise for Patricia Cornwell & the Kay Scarpetta novels:
‘Cutting-edge’ Sun
‘A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller’ BBC
‘America’s most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction’ The Times
‘Devilishly clever’ Sunday Times
‘She is a brilliant writer and I was absolutely gripped’ Mail on Sunday
‘The top gun in this field’ Daily Telegraph
‘Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns’ Mirror
‘The Agatha Christie of the DNA age’ Express
‘One of the best crime writers writing today’ Guardian
‘Few writers match Patricia Cornwell when it comes to writing crime and her latest Scarpetta novel is one of her best’ Daily Express
‘When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell’ New York Times Book Review
‘Dazzling… After reading Cornwell’s thriller, most others will pale in comparison’ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 2.0
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3.0 2.0
I buy these books because I like to read about forensics. After all, Kay Scarpetta is supposed to be a medical examiner. However, there was very little forensics in this. In fact, hardly any.
I listened to this on Xigxag and the narrator, Susan Ericsson (?) was very aggressive in tone. Not just on Marino but on all characters and it grated after a while.
It seems Cornwell is trying to entice Gen Z with this one but she seems to forget the majority of her readers are more Gen X.
Overall, very disappointed with this one.Spencesational 2023-03-23
Details
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- Narrator
- Susan Ericksen
- Duration
- 13 hours 2 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 October 2016
- ISBN
- 9780008150662
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 2.0(1 review)
Synopsis
No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Someone is following you…One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Someone is taunting you…Meanwhile, people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls. Could they be linked to Scarpetta’s anonymous cyber stalker, Tailend Charlie? Someone wants to destroy you…A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core. Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn’t exist on earth. And it’s clear that someone, or something, is coming for her, and is hell-bent on creating chaos…
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