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    Predator: Scarpetta (Book 14)

    By Patricia Cornwell

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    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 that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced.

    The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team—Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli—to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.
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    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateSep 26, 2006
    ISBN9781101155936
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    Predator: Scarpetta (Book 14)
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    Patricia Cornwell

    Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the Creasey, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Prix du Roman d’Aventure. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Patricia has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography, and three more fiction series among others. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the forensic technologies that inform her work. She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston. 

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    • 3/5
      She and her team track the odd connections between several horrific crimes. This book doesn't work too well in audio form because there are too many POVs and the dialogues lack tags, so it was difficult to figure out what was going on at times.
    • 4/5
      Patricia Cornwell has done such damage to all of her main characters that I think she must really hate them. They aren't evolving, they're corroding! Kay has become a wimp, Pete and Lucy have become caricatures of their former personas, and Benton has even less humanity than before. to top it off they ALL whine. I don't know where Cornwell is going with this, but I hope she will restore them to their former happy, likable, if somewhat neurotic selves. I don't like the change in Scarpetta's personality. Also the novel ends abruptly.
    • 4/5
      pretty good book. this is an older one, but still one of the scarpetta series. it was good and i got totally tied up in as usual. this one takes place while they're still in florida which was interesting to me as well. the end seemed a little quick but it did answer all the questions. but she has grown as a writer since then. scarpetta stories are always a nice escape for me.
    • 3/5
      Inhaltsangabe:Lucy hat eine Akademie für Forensische Wissenschaften in Hollywood, Florida, gegründet. Die Akademie soll Fachpersonal weiter ausbilden und Polizeiermittlungen auf Anfrage unterstützen. Pete Marino und Kay Scarpetta sind dort in ihrem Fachgebiet angestellt. Aber wirklich viele Gemeinsamkeiten haben sie nicht mehr. Pete glänzt durch ständige Abwesenheit und wenn er mal auftaucht, benimmt er sich wie ein Stinktier. Kay geht ganz in ihrer Arbeit auf und nimmt einen sonderbaren Fall an, der auf dem ersten Blick als Selbstmord eingestuft wurde.Benton verweilt an der Ostküste. An einem renomierten Krankenhaus führt er eine Studie namens BESTIE durch. Er möchte beweisen, dass Serienkiller andere Gehirnstrukturen aufweisen als normale Menschen. An dieser Studie nimmt ein ehemaliger Polizist und Serienkiller teil, der in Florida sein Unwesen trieb. Er erzählt Benton von einem weiteren -bislang ungeklärten- Fall. Es ist ein Vermisstenfall, aber Nachforschungen ergeben ein anderes Bild.Lucy geht es schon eine Weile nicht mehr gut. Und sie fühlt sich moralisch derangiert und verbringt eine Nacht mit einer mysteriösen Frau namens Stevie. Stevie hat merkwürdige Tätowierungen am Körper, was Lucy hingegen misstrauisch macht.Ohne es zu ahnen, sind alle Beteiligten einem Serienkiller auf der Spur und nur sehr langsam und schwerfällig lassen sich sich die losen Fäden miteinander verbinden.Mein Fazit:Wie so häufig fiel es mir schwer, in die Geschichte reinzukommen. Schnell aufeinanderfolgende Szenenwechsel und sehr viele involvierte Personen machten es mir nicht gerade leicht, den Mord-Ermittlungen zu folgen. Am Anfang gab es nur einen vagen Verdacht. Zwischendurch tauchte dann noch „HoG“ – Hand of God – auf, der mich als Leserin an seinen perfiden Gedankengängen teilhaben und mich eins ums andere Mal vor Schreck und Grauen innerlich erstarren ließ.In allen Handlungssträngen nahm HoG mit den jeweiligen Personen Kontakt auf – und noch mehr. Doch jeder Hinweis auf seine Identität blieb aus, im Gegenteil, ich wurde in die Irre geführt und konnte der Auflösung am Ende irgendwie nicht so richtig glauben. Natürlich habe ich davon gehört, aber ist es wirklich so möglich? Multipe Persönlichkeiten, die miteinander streiten können? Ich muss es mal so hinnehmen, schließlich bin ich nicht vom Fach.Die Reihe um Kay Scarpetta hat nicht nur schlechte Bücher hervor gebracht. Manche Bände fand ich sogar richtig gut und spannend. Aber das waren noch die Fälle, wo Kay Scarpetta aus ihrer Sicht erzählte. Seit die Autorin einen Stilwechsel vollzogen hat, komme ich mit den Fällen gar nicht mehr klar. Ich persönlich halte es für einen Fehler, den Täter seine eigene Geschichte erzählen zu lassen. Zwar kann man in diesem Fall die wahre Indentität des Mörders nur am Ende wirklich erkennen, aber mir hat es viel besser gefallen, wo Kay die Puzzle-Teile Stück für Stück zusammen setzte und ich währenddessen miträtseln konnte. Und die Protagonisten haben eine Entwicklung genommen, die mir nicht wirklich gefiel.Und dann gefiel mir die Protzerei einfach nicht mehr. Gut, Lucy ist durch Cleverness zu Reichtum gekommen und setzt das Geld nun auch sinnvoll ein. Aber die Prahlerei mit den Motorrädern und anderen Dingen in ihrem Umfeld (und Marino sprang nun ebenfalls auf diesen Zug auf) war mir zum Schluss einfach zuwider. Kay und Benton brauchten sich, obwohl sie keine richtigen Jobs mehr hatten, ebenfalls um Geld keine Sorgen mehr machen. Irgendwie finde ich es total abgehoben und auch fern der Realität.Ich habe nun 14 Bände dieser Reihe gelesen und dieses Band war der letzte in meinem SuB. Es ist an der Zeit, sich anderen Serien zu widmen und eine Chance zu geben, denke ich. Mit dieser Reihe werde ich einfach nicht mehr warm. Irgendwie ist mir meine Zeit auch zu schade dafür. Dieser Band bekommt drei Sterne von mir. Für Fans dieser Reihe ist er vielleicht lesenswert, ich mag die Empfehlung aber nicht aussprechen.
    • 3/5
      Dieses Buch hat mich nicht so recht überzeugt. Die Figuren handeln fast durchweg wie verzogene kleine Kinder - keiner redet wirklich mit dem anderen, was zu einem riesen Schlamassel führt. Zum Teil schafft es die Story dann doch, spannend zu sein, wobei das alles zu einem sehr enttäuschenden Ende führt. Dieses ist wenig schlüssig und erscheint mehr erzwungen denn aufgelöst. Auch der "Täter" ist am Ende nicht überzeugend, so wenig wie seine Beweggründe. Es bleiben viele Fragen offen und der Leser verwirrt und unbefriedigt zurück. Nachdem ich andere Rezensionen gelesen habe, sollte ich es vielleicht mit einem früheren Band noch einmal versuchen. Aus dem LEsen nur dieses Buches erschließt sich mir persönlich der Erfolg der Autorin mit dieser Reihe jedenfalls nicht.
    • 2/5
      The Scarpetta books, once so wonderful, have been steadily declining in quality and excitement. I could hardly stay awake.
    • 4/5
      In the beginning I was a little bit disappointed because it wasn't so fast-paced like the other Scarpetta's. It took me a little while to make all the links, probably because it looked like their were a lot of different cases, which weren't related so obviously. Nevertheless after the first third the pace took up and it was getting enthralling. Due to the fact that the main characters have got major problems with their relationships and faith in each other it kept me guessing until the very end how the outcome will be.
    • 2/5
      Maybe because this was a bridged version, but I found the ending crazy -- suddenly the 'bad guy' is caught and the case is solved and you find out how all the pieces fit together as the characters recall the events instead of witnessing them unfold. Poor storytelling, I think.
      This book doesn't work too well in audio form because there are too many POVs and the dialogues lack tags, so it was difficult to figure out what was going on at times.
      Okay as a thriller/mystery, but not great on the literary front.
    • 4/5
      pretty good book. this is an older one, but still one of the scarpetta series. it was good and i got totally tied up in as usual. this one takes place while they're still in florida which was interesting to me as well. the end seemed a little quick but it did answer all the questions. but she has grown as a writer since then. scarpetta stories are always a nice escape for me.
    • 3/5
      Disappointed. Not as well written as I expected.
    • 3/5
      I enjoy reading the Kay Scarpetta series, but feel that these later books are not as thorough. The killer, HOG, who later turns out to be Helen Quincy, talks to a she-like God with an IQ of 155. When all the killers are captured, there is no mention of GOD, and I am wondering if this GOD is one of Helen's other personalities or if GOD is Helen's evil uncle, Adger Quincy. At times, the story seems disorganized. Plus, the evil characters too often fool Lucy, Benton, and Kay.
    • 3/5
      Scarpetta has a mole in her Academy, and doesn't even suspect it, she only knows that the people around her who she trusts the most are not behaving in their normal way. On top of that she is trying to sort out some very twisted murders and feels that she is being led by the nose.I took the liberty of sitting and reading this all in one day. It is that kind of writing, the pace is fast, the mystery good as well as the writing. However, I probably won't read any more Cornwell books. Her stories are grittier and harder to read than I enjoy. For those who like such stories, this would be a great book.
    • 4/5
      detective & mystery stories, pathologists, scarpetta, fiction, cornwell
    • 4/5
      I got this one on CD's to find out whether I like Patricia Cornwell/Kay Scarpetta any more than I used to...and no, I don't. The problem with Cornwell and this book is that there is no one to like. It's not just that all her characters have flaws; they are mostly despictable. Not people you want to hang around with. They seem to have no graces nor virtues except efficiency (eventually). And on this CD, the reading of Marino's character was awful. He sounded like a teen age biker wannabe. Tough guy, right? I will give my points for plot, because you do want to know what's going to happen next (nothing good) and how the whole thing is going to get resolved. With a twist, but no happy endings here. But if there are no good guys, why do you care?
    • 2/5
      The Scarpetta series, like James Patterson's Alex Cross series, is one that I cannot seem to quit reading, no matter how badly I want to do so. I didn't keep track back then, but I'm pretty sure that it's been 5-6 years between reading (listening) to the previous entry, Trace, and reading (listening) to this one. I just couldn't make myself. And I see nothing much has changed.Scarpetta continues to be annoyingly perfect (doctor, lawyer, excellent cook, aging backwards, apparently) but in this entry she becomes irritatingly whiny and just...angry. Benton hasn't changed much, though, as has been said, when one comes back from the dead, one can only go up from there. Marino is being written as a complete buffoon - I'm expected to believe that his unrequited love for Scarpetta has turned him into an idiot? And it doesn't help that the reader of this audio book reads him as an even bigger doofus than he's written, and I wouldn't have believed that was possible until I actually heard it.But it's Lucy who's bearing the worst of what has to clearly be the author's self-loathing. Lucy started out as this child prodigy, the product of uncaring parents who found her way in the world with Scarpetta's and Marino's help. Now, she's just a hot mess. She hates herself, and even though Scarpetta has FINALLY come out of her own self-absorption to actually notice it, it appears she intends to remain in that state. How she can even function in the exalted position as head of the company she's created from the ground up is beyond me. Cornwell could go a long way toward redeeming this series by dialing down the pathos a notch or two hundred.I don't know if the plot was too complex (I don't think that's it) or the fact that I was listening in the car during the holidays, such a hectic time anyway, but I found it difficult to follow at times, and had to keep going back to catch myself up. There was a plot - and I'd like to know what it is about this group of people that attracts the lunatics to them. Is it something in Scarpetta's magnificent dinners? And it was resolved, eventually, though there was a lot a exposition, in-fighting, and general buffoonery out of Marino before it was. And we dropped right off into another adventure, did we not?I give this one star for the book, and one star for me actually getting all the way through it.
    • 4/5
      Yes again I am hopeful that Cornwell is returning Scarpetta to someone interesting. This time the focus is on Lucy and leaves plenty of room for future exploration with her character, and she's expanded on Marino again as well. Is it just me or does Pete Marino seem to be getting younger with each book? With the story line introduced here, the next couple of installments should prove to be very interesting--I hope she keeps up the great work for those!
    • 2/5
      Kay Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, her boyfriend Benton Wesley team up to investigate murders form Florida to Massachusetts. They may all be related, of course. The world is too small in Cornwell's novels. There don't seem to be any other investigators that get this case. And, one of the culprits always has it out for Lucy, Kay, Marino or Benton, of course. It's all too contrived. That being said the ending came on in 2 pages and left us hanging as to who did what to whom. The why was all supposition which is all unusual for a police procedural based on evidence collection. Not sure why I keep reading the Scarpetta series...
    • 3/5
      This Scarpetta is an improvement over the previous few in this series. However, it is still nowhere close to the books that started the series. The characters have become completely unlikeable. The plot was better than the last few but still left me a little wanting. I also did not care for the point of view in this one. Oh Patricia, where have you gone? I was such a fan of the first books and you just seem to have wandered off and lost your way somewhere. I read this one because it was on loan from a friend. I don't know how much longer I can keep giving this series another chance.
    • 2/5
      A more unpleasant collection of characters you would never want to meet. It is hard to care about any of them as they have all cracked under pressure and become nasty and petty at every single opportunity.
    • 2/5
      Too many things gong on, never really resolved.
    • 3/5
      I really like Cornwell's novels, but I thought that this one was reaching a bit.
    • 3/5
      I'm not loving the later Cornwell novels.
    • 4/5
      Kay Scarpetta is on the trail of a serial killer while her boyfriend is interviewing one for research purposes. The two killers path begin to come together as the story unfolds.
    • 3/5
      I am an avid fan of all of Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta books, but somehow this one failed to grab my attention the way the others had, and consequently remains unread by me. It might be that I was distracted or busy at the time, and I'm not writing off Patricia Cornwell just yet.
    • 3/5
      A mix of cases in Florida and in Boston leds Scarpetta and her team to search for connections.
    • 3/5
      Better than Trace, but still not up to her first few books in this series.
    • 2/5
      I’m not sure why I read this, other than it was around the house. With the last book, I said I wouldn’t read any more of Cornwell’s Scarpetta mysteries and yet I did. It sucked. Over Christmas, I re-read Postmortem, the first book and remembered just how great they were. Major disappointment.
    • 2/5
      honestly, since Postmortem, something seems a bit off in Cornwell's writing, and i don't mean merely in the literary sense. perhaps the whole case-closed thing has gone a bit to her head? the works seems defensive and on edge.
    • 3/5
      I am so uncomfortable with Scarpetta's arrogance and bitchiness, yet I find myself reading all the books in this series. Go figure. Good read, interesting plot, oversimplified good and evil characters.
    • 3/5
      I've loved the Kay Scarpetta books for years but my interest in her is waning. Lucy is getting to screwed up. Kay and Benton didn't share a single tender moment with each other. And what was the purpose of Dr. Self? The killer changed his/her mind - what is up with that?