• Red Mist

  • Kay Scarpetta Mysteries, Book 19
  • By: Patricia Cornwell
  • Narrated by: Kate Burton
  • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (74 ratings)

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Red Mist

By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Burton
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Publisher's summary

With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out.

Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace. Driven by inner forces, Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding’s death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.

And she is the only one who can stop it.

©2011 CEI Enterprises, Inc. (P)2011 Penguin Audio

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Love the book!! Mispronunciation

Like the story. This series is one of my favs! The reader needs to make sure she pronounces medical terms correctly. Ambu = Am-boo, google it before you say it 25 times in one book🤔

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She still has it!

Entertaining, suspenseful and scientific! Great listen for all you crime fighters. Easy listening but captivating.

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The story seemed to fall short

Didnt care for the ominous music they added. If i needed or wanted that, I'd watch TV.

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Red Mist

Had me on pins and needles! This was a reread waiting for #25. Great narrative!

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So good

Kate Burton does the best reading I’ve heard in a long while.
I’ll look for her again!
Love the Scarpetta series.

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Please stop adding music

I cannot understand why they add music at the end of some chapters. It’s annoying. It distracts from the story. It drowns out the narrator. Please. Stop. If I had a way of knowing an audio book had this “feature” I would never buy it. It does nothing to enhance the performance, but it sure does detract from it.

Oh…the book was pretty good!

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Hate the music

The new background music is SO distracting! Please take it away. The reader does a fine job, but the effect is broken by the music.

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Best Scarpetta novel yet

This was so much more fast paced and interesting than some of the other books in the series. loved it!

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Loved the story, not the reading.

I absolutely loved the book. I hated the musical portions that were added to the audio. It was a terrible distraction and added no benefit whatsoever.

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Sleeper

I had to force myself to finish and couldn’t wait for it to be over and done.

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