Books
by Patricia Cornwell
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Blow Fly |
The new Cornwell is here and because of its content she can guarantee we'll want her next one too! Scarpetta, no longer Virginia's most famous Chief Medical Examiner, is no longer a happy woman. Marino becomes really worried about her when Jean-Baptiste Chandone, (the vicious French wolf-man who nearly killed her) asks to see her from his cell on death row. And he's right to worry, because some people are coming back from the dead . . .
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 21 November 2003) |
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Portrait of a Killer - Jack the Ripper - Case closed |
With the benefit of her studies in forensic medicine, the author (an American thriller writer with a distinguished reputation) meticulously presents the reasons for concluding that the famous English painter Walter Richard Sickert was Jack the Ripper. It makes a fascinating and gripping but also macabre and sad study given that the serial killer chose his victims from the downtrodden of Victorian London. You can always skip gory parts if you are squeamish!
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 20 September 2003) |
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