Black Notice

“As in the nine Scarpettas past here it’s not the novel’s events, startling as they are, that propel the story so much as the deep-hearted responses of Kay, as real a hero as any in thriller fiction, to the ‘evil’—her word—that threatens…A thunderhead of disquietude hangs over this compulsively readable novel…but to Cornwell’s considerable credit, the unease arises ultimately not from the steady potential for violence but from a more profound horror: the vulnerability of a good woman like Kay to a world beset by the corrupt, the cruel, the demonic.”