Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell

Last of my 2009 summer reads.
(boohoo... back to more serious reading now)

I really liked this one. Lots of loose ends tied up from the last Scarpetta story, but...

an editor! An editor! This story needs someone to chop away at least 25% of this book. Annoying nuisances pop up like repetitious sentences, the criminal deluge of adverbs... and rehashing the plot progress too much.

What happens to editors when they have to deal with best selling authors? Actors need their directors and authors need their editors to pull in the reins and do all that fancy schmancy editorial stuff.

Sigh.

Of course, who am I to critique when I have never written a book?

Well...

I've read a ton of them including Patricia Cornwell's novels.

I'll be eagerly awaiting the next in the Scarpetta series.

Please, please make this avid reader want to give Dr. Kay a four star review.

(3 out of 5 stars)

Scarpetta available at You Are What You Read Book Store

LEARN MORE:

Official Patricia Cornwell Site http://www.patriciacornwell.com/

THE STREETS OF BABYLON by Carina Burman Translated by Sarah Death

Take a Swedish literature scholar ( who also happens to be a very talented novelist), toss in a Victorian era mystery in London, add in a fictional narcissistic mystery writer by the name of Euthanasia Bondeson, and some sleuthing through such places as a “molly house” for cross dressing gentlemen of 1851 during the Great Exhibition…

Well…

You have the makings of an absolutely delightful who done it.

The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery is the first book of a trilogy. I certainly look forward to reading the rest of this series.

And just a post note for those of you weary of translations… this book was seamless. If I had not been told, I would not have been aware that this work was translated from Swedish to English.

ENJOY!

4 out of 5 stars


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