Series: A Scarpetta Novel
Audio CD
Publisher: Penguin Audio; Abridged edition (October 20, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143145487
ISBN-13: 978-0143145486
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 5.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (583 customer reviews)
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Your sales were down 50% from last year. You failed to hit the #1 slot on the NYT bestsellers list for the first time in, like, a hundred years. So what do we, the readers, want?1. Brevity. Your last two books ballooned to 500 pages. And you used to be so concise!!2. The third person has to go. We all loved Kay, we loved hearing her thoughts.3. Dump the spouse. Benton is boring. Your new forays into the mind and psychobabble are also boring.4. Go back to the morgue. Yes, it's been done a billion times since you introduced it but readers still like it and you still do it better than anyone.5. Take a lesson from Sue Grafton. U is for Undertow just hit #1. The Scarpetta Factor did not. Kinsey's still Kinsey. Kay is no longer Kay. There's no more sharp tone, sharp heels, dread, bad dreams, bad tempers, worry, loss of appetite, compassion, sleepless nights, wry banter with Marino, ability to work 5 days straight without changing clothes .... We want that back. None of this idealized version you've given us, with everyone lusting after her or admiring her or losing it while she floats above it all in her highrise apartments. What happened to her gardens, the fresh tomatoes, the cooking? Highrises are so sterile. Benton is so sterile. (The Scarpetta Factor had one cooking scene at the end that felt very contrived.)6. Stop trying to elevate Kay. She got fired from Richmond. She tried and ended several apparently unsuccessful businesses. With that past no way will she be on CNN hosting the Scarpetta Factor. That would be like you hosting CNBC. Ain't gonna happen. Kay's superiority came from her brains and moral compass -- not her jobs and not her money.7. But what's wrong with being "just" an M.E. in NY or Boston anyway?
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