Southern Cross: Complete & Unabridged
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754053164 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Confusing This story was very hard to follow. The characters names were hard to identify. The story did not flow well. It seemed to skip around and confused the reader. Wickedly Funny liliales I'm so glad I did. I liked the Hammer, West and Brazil characters very much in Hornet's Nest, and found all the characters in Southern Cross to be well-drawn, believable, and either very endearing or appropriately distasteful, yet intriguing.The whole story hinges on a series of increasingly funny miscommunications, which all collide at the climax near the end. There is only one scene of truly shocking violence, as opposed to the many you might find in a Kay Scarpetta story, and it's a very good example of the sheer wastefulness of most crimes.I'd say that the only slight drawback is the odd way the West/Brazil relatio. "Only junk food when you needed meat & potatoes" according to A Customer. I was also disappointed in this novel. I do realize that authors must try different directions once in a while to remain fresh and explore their limits, but Southern Cross was filled with forgetable characters, a forgetable and fragmented plot, and a forgetable ending. I did find it humerous at times, but the whole book didn't quite make it into satire territory.As much as you don't want to, Ms. Cornwell, please return to Kay Scarpetta. We miss her and the excellent writing you did for her.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The new police chief of Richmond, Virginia, Judy Hammer struggles to cope with her grief over the death of her husband, political turmoil, and police corruption, as she and her deputy chief, Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil work to clean up a city in trouble.
In their first appearance (Hornet's Nest, 1997), Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Virginia West, and reporter-turned-rookie-cop Andy Brazil battled a serial killer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Also, her narrative, divided among three major characters, loses its focus and sags at several points. Unfortunately, Hammer, Brazil, and West could not have been prepared for the resentment they would confront or the bizarre cast of characters they would find upon their arrival: Lelia Ehrhart--wealthy (and nosey) chair of the Blue Ribbon Crime Commission--whose heavy European accent renders her English dangerously hilarious; Butner "Bubba" Flunk IV--tobacco industry worker, gun collector, and UFO aficionado; Smoke--the sociopathic leader of the Pikes gang; and Weed Gardener--14-year-old painter turned master graffiti artist. Unlike Cornwell's usual fare, Southern Cross is driven almost exclusively by an interest in