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Complex characters and their interactions have always been at the heart of the author’s work. However, a decade ago, the spotlight was firmly fixed on Virginia chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her small circle of friends. Cornwell, in the first person, relayed Scarpetta’s fascinating observations and judgments. Cornwell gave us the world through the eyes of a smart, powerful woman chafing against the profoundly masculine and often misogynistic law enforcement culture...
Take Anita Blake. Many have. She's a vampire hunter who fell for Richard, a werewolf, slept with wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel and then bedded Jean Claude, the master vampire of St. Louis, Mo. When vertical, she runs around like a paranormal Kay Scarpetta, keeping her fanged friends out of trouble. "Anita knew Richard was a monster, but he was no rapist," writes Laurell K. Hamilton, Blake's creator. Hamilton, currently writing the 15th novel in the series (the last four were New York Times best sellers), says the secret to her vampires' popularity is that "they're people first...
...grimmest and most convincing is Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm (Scribners; 387 pages; $23), the fifth adventure of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a gifted forensic pathologist, which means, yes, a performer of autopsies. And a fast hand with panty hose; it's she who tends to the wounded fellow, who as it happens is her married lover...
...title refers to a research unit where the decomposition of bodies is studied. Scarpetta uses its grisly expertise to track a serial killer whose latest victim is an 11-year-old girl. What she finds is chilling, unexpected and nearly fatal. The author uses the momentum that a good series develops: an evil presence from an earlier book lurks in the background, and Scarpetta's love affair foreshadows trouble in Book Six. In the messy present, a running squabble with a neurotic, self-absorbed sister is fine family comedy...
Sophomore Vince Scarpetta is the team's ace. In the first six matches of the year, he averaged an amazing 69.6 per outing. The team as a whole has also turned in a number of impressive showings. In two consecutive meets early in the year against Villanova and La Salle, the Quakers posted scores of 368--an average of 73.5 per player...