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Depraved Heart
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
Number-one New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the 23rd engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer-genius niece, Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn.
She doesn't know whom she can tell - not her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.
In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves.
The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious - but, strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they raid Lucy's estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.
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- David Rowe
- 26-06-21
what you expect
same old same old, but if you like that then you like reading the same story over and over again you'll love this
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- viki
- 06-12-15
Good but different
Stick with this book, when I started it I felt it was very 'all about poor me' as in Kay Scarpetta. It took a while for me to really get into it but it was worth the wait.
Not in the usual style and feels quite bleak at times compared to the others in this series.
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- Caz
- 21-04-16
Enjoyable performance by the narrator
I thought the narrator was very good. She created the right amount of tension at the appropriate moments. I liked how she created each character through her voice & way of talking. Story flowed well & it wasn't an expected ending! I recommend to listen to it.
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- OrientalPoppy
- 02-05-21
struggled to finish
i am.not impressed with Scarpetta. its tired and not inspiring. i wont buy the books again
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- A. Dane
- 19-11-22
Ok story, not great narration
Oh how I miss Lorelai King's narration of the Kay Scarpetta novels!
Ericksen just hasn't got it, to say she 'performs' the novel is a vast overstatement, the first half of the novel she sounds rather deranged and for most of the novel I couldn't tell the difference between characters unless it actually says 'Marion said' or 'Benton said' which was very confusing and almost caused me to stop it midway through.
Having read the first 15 novels in paperback before I began all over again with the audio books had already given me an image of the characters. The wonderful accent King gave Marino fitted perfectly with my imagination of Marino, and I wonder why Ericksen didn't listen so the previous novels before taking on the series and tried to replicate the accents and tone of voices that had been established, considering King narrated the majority of the previous 20 novels in the series.
I also dislike her high pitched, screaming in the tense scenes, especially the first few chapters were horrendous to listen to. Whereas King would be almost eerily calm when the storyline was tense, causing it to be much more scary and intense, Ericksen just screams the lines hysterically.
Did I mention I miss Lorelai King?
The storyline is ok, Kay, Lucy, Pete and the rest are once again being haunted by a foe from the past, but I miss the style of the early books where every book was a single story with the characters backstory tying the series together, it feels like nothing happens in this book, and while it is an ok listen it isn't amazing, and far from the style that I loved about the early Scarpetta novels.....
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- judith
- 07-03-17
Good but not her best
The first part of the book is engaging and interesting but it becomes drawn out as the book goes on. There is little character development compared to the other books. It's still an enjoyable and very good read
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- Sue Smith
- 22-08-19
Great story ruined by poor narration
Another great story but sadly ruined by very poor narration. Previous books were narrated by Loreila King who was consistently excellent. Pity Ms King didn’t narrate this one.
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- MARIE
- 20-07-20
not one of her best book
personally I felt the story line was weak. the book was boring. I love her books but I was left disappointed.
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- Miss Jennifer Amor
- 29-10-15
easy listening
read all the books, listening is much better can do other things at the same time.
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- claire norton
- 09-11-20
If you like Kay Scarpetta you'll enjoy this.
Not a bad story but having read many Dr Scarpetta novels over the years it was a bit predictable
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