At Risk

Name: At Risk
Brand: Penguin Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.95 (105 reviews)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: 9781429585552

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Series: Win Garano #1

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/23/2006

Category: Fiction - Suspense

Synopsis

A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: "Any crime, any time." In particular, she's been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she's found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right?

Her investigator is not so sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman, really-but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It's not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed . . . and they're about to get much worse.

Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.View the trailer for "Patricia Cornwell's At Risk", premiering on Lifetime on April 10, 2010.

Author Bio

Patricia Cornwell is a Miami born, contemporary crime novelist. Her books usually feature the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is a medical examiner. After a way sad childhood, Cornwall graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English. She wrote a biography of a family friend entitled, “A Time for Remembering”, then renamed “Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham” in 1983. After working in a Virginia medical examiners for six years, she wrote the first installment of her “Scarpetta” series entitled “Postmortem”. Her six year job was valuable in including a lot of forensic science details in her “Scarpetta” series. Her novels are considered to have influenced the creation of the TV series on forensics such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case. In the same vein Cornwell made a brief appearance on the Criminal Minds episode “True Genius”, as herself.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Carolyn on 2007-07-04 11:29:14

Patricia Cornwell is a brilliant writer and I have learned a lot about forensics by reading her books. Her characters are not exactly endearing which is why I can't love her books. AT RISK introduces us to a new set of characters to dislike. the only exception is Win's grandmother, a psychic, who gave the book a little more heart than in most of her novels. Delma Sykes also seems promising and her work in Tennessee on the cold case is the most interesting part of the book. I also had a hard time accepting the At Risk program which seemed to somehow magically create a forensics profile of ethnic origin and why someone in Boston would absolutely need it to win an election. It just seemed too unbelievable. I thought Win was a total idiot to get himself involved with that awful Monique and their 'romance' seemed contrived. The best thing I can say about AT RISK is that it is only 281 pages long so you can get through it quickly and move on to something better. If this is the first in a new series I am nto sure I will want to read the rest.