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Healing Mantras (Baltantine, cool-dow- ut health-conscio- Far Regel gardens and pumps inm. unimiina ably Patricia Cornwell's most intricate weaving j job ever. And while it is IMHMiW part of a senal with lawverdoctor Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell quickly introduces the new reader to the existing relationships so that no one is lost. Th critiques of Black Notice are minor at best, and generally applicable to the entire Scarpetta senes. First, there's an inherent literary problem for the reader when writing fl ll fll BLACK NOTICE By Patricia CotmreB Putnam, $25.95 ISW SJN14SM7 PUUum Hum, M fed, J2LL 3WI4S1SZ RAw Mk, nSniteN. S39.SS, 399 US IS REVIEW BY CLAY STAFFORD Black Notice begins when Kay Scarpetta receives a letter from her murdered lover on the one-yeanniversary of his death. Scarpetta is almost immediately called to a come scene w here she finds a badly decomposed, dead body and the message Btm voyage, le ar wont in first person. It kills suspense. If the narrator is telling the tale, then no mailer how treacherous things get, the reader always knows the narrator will survive. Second, social concerns are best show n through action rather than via charac- be given here because it is part of the mystery, but suffice it to say that at u the mention of a Stephen King's interest would be piqued. This is not an easy mystery to solve, for Scarpetta or the reader. loup-garv- At first it may seem that there are a ter dialogue ' dozen different and unrelated things going on at the same time; a drug and firearms sting operation in Miami, a dead body in a ship's cargo hold in Richmond, a demoted detective, Interpol involvement on two continents, a dishonest assistant, a crooked Deputy Chief, a hunky ATF man, the gruesome murders of women in America and France. By the end of the story, it all makes sense, all loose ends are tied, and the reader realizes there wasnt a wasted paragraph anywhere. This story is prob thriller a l(Hip-garo- A translation -- i ' i e., the prejudices against same-se- x relationships. Cornwell's best work glows when characters exemplify the pain, not when they talk about it Third, a couple of rare moments in the middle skiw the action as they Ng dow n in forensic terms, or stretch belies ability when clues turn up too easily or confessions blurt too quickly, But once these pass the reader should again expect a sleepless night of reading. Black Notice makes it very difficult to turn out the lights. It is Patnvia Cornwell at her best Clay SiajfiwJ iv a nier and filmmaker HEBgsana |