Book: Livid

 Book: Livid

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Pages: 368

This is my 157th read for the year

Kay Scarpetta returns as a key witness in a murder trial.  While this is going on, the sister of the judge, Annie - who is also a close friend of Scarpetta - is murdered.  Kay and her team are sent to investigate.  At first it looks like a home invasion, but upon further investigation something sinister seems to have happened to the judge's sister.  Another victim turns up and Kay feels that all of them are in danger if they don't capture this killer soon.

This book was not good.  I used to be a really big Patricia Cornwell fan.  I read all of her books. Scarpetta and Pete Marino were some of my favorite characters over the years.  A few years ago I read a Scarpetta novel and swore it would be my last.  Cornwell has made Scarpetta so out of touch with reality (probably due to Cornwell being so wealthy and famous) that the novels stopped being interesting to me.  However, I found this on for $4 at a used bookstore and figure I would give it a try.  The plot is boring.  She just rambles on and on about details that no one cares about unless you are a forensic pathologist (or really into the study of it) or a medical examiner.  She describes so many things that there was no actual story.  This was a book to nowhere.  I did not care what happened to any of the characters and the ending was a total let down.  I am now done.

Stars: 2