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Fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
Realistic and entertaining thriller which throws an ironic light on how to police a city.
Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should ride on patrol with her to better relations with their citizens. Her worst fears are confirmed when the reporter, Brazil, presses the button to activate the boot-release rather than the siren on their first outing. He's not the only blight on her life right now: her cat's angsty, her hormones are misbehaving, her opposite number in the uniformed division is behaving like a jackass, the radio despatcher is determined to trip her up, the D.A. is in the middle of a hot battle with the trial schedule. And orange coloured corpses keep turning up on her patch.
Praise for Hornet's Nest
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Vintage Cornwell: gripping plot, great characters and ironic humour. - COSMOPOLITAN
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Cornwell's portrait of a bustling small city with a growing crime problem is believable and incisive. - THE TIMES
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riveting, stay-up-all-night chiller...hugely enjoyable. - ELLE
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Gripping stuff. - WOMAN AND HOME
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Patricia Cornwell
PATRICIA CORNWELL burst onto the crime fiction scene with POSTMORTEM, and the subsequent novels featuring the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta have all been substantial bestsellers.
Author Location: New York.
Postmortem/Body of Evidence/All That Remains/Cruel and Unusual/Body Farm/From Potter's Field/Cause of Death/Unnatural Exposure/Point of Origin/Black Notice/Last Precinct/Blow Fly/Trace/Predator/Hornet's Nest/Southern Cross/Isle of Dogs/At Risk/Portrait of a Killer
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