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Trace

Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 13

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Trace

By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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Trace is the heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1 best-selling crime writer.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.

In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Marino dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.

Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a 14-year-old girl and working with the smallest pieces of evidence, traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak, and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.

©2004 Cornwell Entertainment, Inc. (P)2004 Penguin Audio
Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Medical Medical & Forensic Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Detective Heartfelt Scary
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Intriguing Mystery • Intricately Woven Storylines • Excellent Narration • Engaging Voice Acting • Superb Accents
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I love the Scarlett’s series! I listen on Audible and out of the Three readers for this series thus far, Kate Reading is my absolute favorite!

Great book

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I like that the readers.try to change their voices to match the characters BUT sometimes it doesn't quite make it. I'd rather the voices be from different people, esp if the reader wants to act it out.

Scarpetta

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The narrator is Superb with the accents. The story is very interesting. The medical mixed with detective.

Complexity

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This mystery novel had a lot of intricately woven storylines going on. Great weaving of the plot to keep me interested till the end. Loved it

Another excellent read!

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A lot of loose ends at the end - will they be tidied up in future tales? Do I care enough to find out?

Gripping tale

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Storyline was good, just hard to follow as most of the time the narrator was monotone and very slow.

Narrator spoke so slow it sounded as if she was either drunk or extremely bored.

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Narrator was good, I could recognize the characters by the readers voice. Story was interesting!

Story was good

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My sister started me on this new journey..I recently have eye issues so this is a great way of getting lost in a story. I love reading but I am sure I will get to love audible books just as much.

newcomer

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I’m on a mission to read the Scarpetta series. The narrator was excellent with the reading. Changing her voice kept the story interesting. The story line was all over the place. It was hard to keep up at times. But on to the next one. Happy reading!

Confused

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Wanted it to be good. Very good narration but story is more of the same boring.

Boring

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