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Port Mortuary
- Scarpetta, Book 18
- Narrated by: Kate Burton
- Series: Scarpetta, Book 18
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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Publisher's Summary
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's numberon-one best-selling crime writer.
"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." (The New York Times Book Review)
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high-tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she accepted a scholarship from the air force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than 20 years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship.
As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments, MIT, and Harvard, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally.
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- teresa gooch ross
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- k.
- 12-10-10
Toxic...
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- Dorothy
- 12-11-10
Not her best work followed by a very poor narrator
I've read all her novels and I feel the quality of her work declines with each novel and this book was made even worse by the narrator. I'm fairly tolerant of the readers but this was the worst and I struggled to hear the book through to the end. It is all about how wonderful Scarpetta is, how well accomplished a woman she is, etc. etc. Not only did the plot drag on but the narrator made it even worse with her emotional emphasis in all the wrong places. I just started to tune out the story line. My advice, don't spend the money on this one.
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- Amy
- 12-10-10
This series just keeps getting worse...
I haven't enjoyed this series through the last few books, but hoped this would be as good as the initial few books, but this was not even close. Another disappointment. I will not be fooled again.
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- Barbara
- 12-09-10
Not what I expected.
Very negative. Scarpetta seems depressed and paranoid. Don't understand how she gets to be this way in such a short time.
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- Arthur
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It could have been so good... but
Kate Burton is an excellent reader and the story could have been great if Cornwell hadn't put Scarpetta on such a sad, depressed, paranoid trip.
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- Jason
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Putdownable
I had no idea what was going on thru this eniter book. All of the sudden Kay is in the milatary. Two women killed in South Africa had nothing what so ever to do with the story. I think she wrote this train wreck of a book just so Kay could get a dog. Lucy and Marrino are barley in the story and when they are all she dose is think how much she dosent like Marrino. Kill him off if thats all your going to do with him. I haven't enjoyed any of these books since she bought Benton back from the dead. Should have left him there. Oh and here we are working in another city AGAIN.. I'm not buying anymore of these Scarpetta books
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- Charlotte NC Dweller
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Poor plot, redundant dialog, no compeling characte
Rambling dialog left me wondering why I bothered listening till the end. The villain is so poorly developed that the plot does not hold together. Waste of time.
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- Taniqua Carter
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Disappointing
While the story line is a continuation of the previous plots, it really added nothing to character development. The reader was also inconsistent; overly dramatic at times and too bland at others.
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- Cindy LaRue
- 12-25-10
Angry Narrator
I've read the Scarpetta novels (early ones especially) and there was so much more depth in those characters -- what happened here? For anyone who has not read Scarpetta, how on earth could they find a character to like? No one to root for. The Scarpetta character reading was angry, angry, all the time. This storyline left me wondering what the heck I just read. Did I miss a chapter somewhere?
I'm very dissapointed with her last two books. Very unfortunate.
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