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Title details for Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell - Available

Southern Cross

#2 in series

by Patricia Cornwell
Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
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Patricia D. Cornwell's experience in a coroner's office has amplified her keen eye for detail and talent for crafting books filled with riveting suspense. Renowned for her best-selling, hard-edged Kay Scarpetta mystery series, Cornwell now breaks new ground in Southern Cross. Her always gritty realism is tempered with broad strands of humor. Summer in Richmond, Virginia is heating up. Bubba, proudly wearing a confederate flag on his truck and a camouflage shirt on his back, shops for another handgun. Stolid and determined, Chief Hammer wonders if she can straighten out the massive chaos in the police department. As he slips into class, a skinny high school kid named Weed dreads being forced to join a brutal gang. Their paths are on a collision course—one that will carry them through dangerous confrontations and surprising friendships to an unexpected conclusion. Narrator Cristine McMurdo-Wallis conveys each varied scene with a sure sense of emotion and character.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Andy Brazil

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 28, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781490625140
      • File size: 359619 KB
      • Duration: 12:29:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Is this a true crime or a novel? Cristine McMurdo-Wallis's per-formance doesn't give you any clues but allows the text to provide the answer. Richmond Police Chief Judy Hammer and her two assistants attempt to track down computer hackers, end gang violence and solve a racially motivated homicide. Cornwell's text links them all, in unexpected and often funny twists. McMurdo-Wallis's journalistic reading of this police drama sounds more like a radio news magazine than an entertaining story. But it works, in much the way the old "Dragnet" television series used to--"just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts." Her one all-out characterization of an immigrant socialite brings exactly the right spice to the mix. R.P.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Police Chief Judy Hammer and Officers Virginia West and Andy Brazil have moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Richmond, Virginia, to overhaul the city's police department. A string of ATM murders and the resentment of locals tests their skills and fortitude. Thanks to a strong narrator and judicious editing, this production will keep listeners interested. Roberta Maxwell's narration is strong and sure, fitting the mood of the story and effortlessly falling into natural cadences of speech for all the characters. She gracefully handles the many shifts of scene and characters, being precise without being rigid. It's not Kay Scarpetta, but it's a satisfying "listen." M.A.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      This new suspense from Cornwell, set in Richmond, Virginia, is not a Kay Scarpetta mystery, though a few of its major characters were introduced in the Scarpetta series. Hammer, the new female chief of police, has been hired to straighten out the department, and she's brought along some of her best colleagues from their former department. Amid the antagonism of the police force towards the outsiders, cases are being sabotaged at every turn. McMurdo-Wallis is superb at voicing each character in a book peopled with everything from psychopaths to society ladies. She calls up an entire repertoire of Southern accents to fit each individual, whether "cracker" or politico. Wisely, she lets the writing convey the drama and tension, and there's plenty of both; anything more would have resulted in melodrama, which would have been a shame. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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