false 232145 40 Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we're dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta's mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta's gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene. <I>Unnatural Exposure</I> boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta's gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let's face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell's most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy's FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it's less jarring than <I>Hannibal</I>'s, and it's the logical culmination of Cornwell's philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel's finale, read Cornwell's remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 2589885 1996 Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8) total:4699|5:1118|4:1846|3:1479|2:229|1:27| 4699 17896 6082 81 0 1 false false Sat Sep 29 21:26:44 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 21:30:09 -0700 2007
Narrator: C.J. Critt
Publisher: Recorded Books, 2004
Length: 11 hours and 12 min.

Publisher's Summary

Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay S...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jan 08 12:13:26 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 12:13:26 -0800 2009
This series is what I call a "guilty pleasure". Not at all high-brow, but easy to read thrillers with some mystery, and I have to admit that I enjoy the gruesome details about forensic pathology. Being an engineering type, I like to know ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 11:27:01 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 11:31:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Nov 03 09:48:22 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 10:08:28 -0800 2008 Cornwell, Patricia - 3th kay Scarpetta

A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportuni...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 06:24:06 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 12:55:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 10 15:29:36 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 15:39:06 -0700 2008
Truly, I have rarely encountered such a compelling, complex, conflicted -- yet utterly competent and professional -- protagonist in all of my reading.

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