The American crime novel finds in Patricia cornwell to your best representative. I do not mean to say that other writers of this genre, in a large country like the United States, do not reach their level of recognition. But if we stick to the structure that best fits the classic black of his compatriots Hammett o ChandlerThe truth is that in my opinion Patricia Cornwell is that reference that continues what was started by those two writers of the 20th century, only with an aspect more adapted to research of our times, of a more scientific nature.
With a difficult childhood, marked by her father's detachment and her mother's disability, Patricia had to take the reins of her life with the burden of emotional shortcomings, shortcomings that finally bore fruit in that necessary sublimation that is writing.
Without finding her love of writing, Patricia could have succumbed to the sadness she inhabited in phases during the harsh teenage years. Without family references, with the memory of a father who seemed to abhor her and with the melancholic lost gaze of a mother who no longer inhabited the same space, only writing served as a placebo.
The rest of her thematic background of the black gender was acquired by working as a criminal reporter in the written press, as well as a forensic and police assistant. The set of her circumstances and her experiences ended up leading to the great black genre writer who today is Patricia Cornwell, with that knowledge of the facts regarding the dark recesses of the human being, where the necessary evil is forged with which to configure her characters more wicked.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Patricia Cornwell
Inhuman
Great novel with her marked alter ego Kay Scarpetta delves into the past of the protagonist herself to present us with a work more inclined to thriller, without abandoning that point of pure crime novel to which we are accustomed... Few characters have given as much of themselves as this one doctor faced with so many cases of homicides of all kinds.
The case of this Inhuman book is already sensed as something atrocious, something that can compromise even the hardened Dr. Scarpetta. The one in charge of materializing the character, Patricia cornwell in this new installment he is ready to make us suffer for our beloved and admired doctor.
While Kay works with her wonderful praxis and her overwhelming methodology to elucidate any type of origin of a violent death, a dark tangle looms over her and her family. Maybe that's what it's about. After more than 20 installments, Kay is a friend to so many readers that we have followed her more or less frequently.
In that case, the gender of thriller redirected to the person of Kay, he catches us with the changed foot. It is no longer a question of discerning a truth with the aseptic gloves of the scientist.
Nothing to do with the fascination of the layman before the technique of those who are busy drawing conclusions from the details that a dead person can harbor as secrets in the skin or in the organs ... In this case we are approaching a surgery that seems to want to open the flesh of Kay to reach her soul.
Evil, the more unforeseen, the more indecipherable, puzzles and unbalances to unimaginable extremes. Kay's integrity, that of her relatives, her professional career, everything seems to be cracking like a dam that can anticipate a great explosion ...
Because, the worst thing of all is sensing that this evil comes from Kay's past, or at least someone has cared to decipher it. That's right, it seems as if an enigmatic demon had studied her in every phase of her life, in order to reach the most sensitive springs of her existence.
A great proposal that keeps us in tension. What will become of Kay after so many adventures lived with her?
Red fog
Number 19 of Kay Scarpetta's series brings us closer to the city of Savannah, a southern city with a calm and stately appearance. And precisely in a location like this one, the case facing the well-known forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta stands out more.
The chain murders that take place leave their natural trace, their clues, their own characteristics on the bodies of the victims. But Kay Scarpetta intuits that this time she will have to lavish more on the intangible, on that thread that can only be found by displaying the invesetter's nose.
Of course, outside of her scope of work, on the bodies and their encrypted messages towards the resolution of the case, Kay faces helplessness.
But to elucidate what is happening, to decipher the murderer's sinister labyrinth, she must engage in hand-to-hand fighting against evil, with new risks that will bring her closer to the abyss, where only determination and cold blood can end up leading her to the truth. before faltering and succumbing to evil.
Cruel and strange
The death penalty as a starting point to chain a black novel plot with splashes towards the ethical. Justice has determined that Ronnie Joe Waddell is guilty of murder.
Kay Scarpetta suspects that the cruelty of death may have blinded more objective arguments. When the people ask for blood, justice can be conditioned... The blatant error of killing Ronnie is completely revealed when the real murderer takes care of killing a girl with the same guidelines as the victim accused of Ronnie.
Revealing the cruelty becomes the main mission of the doctor, but her investigation finds too many obstacles ... And that's when Kay considers that there may be something more, a will to upset everything, using even justice for its macabre end.
