4 Scarpetta Novels - $7.99 - Kindle

poohbear_nc · 11-19-2009, 01:35 PM

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Scarpetta...8651960&sr=1-6

Don't know if this is a typo - but you can get 4 novels for the price of one.
This package originally debuted with a price over $30, then settled in at $28.

Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans.

desertgrandma · 11-19-2009, 02:21 PM

I came very close to buying this when i first saw it........then realized they didn't even put the books in chronological order.!
Postmortem (1990)
Body of Evidence (1991)
All That Remains (1992)
Cruel and Unusual (1993

Its important to read these in the proper order, the character development adds to the experience.

Someone dropped the ball...but it was good of you to post it anyway!

rcuadro · 11-19-2009, 03:03 PM

It has almost the same number of 1 star reviews as it has 5 star... strange

poohbear_nc · 11-19-2009, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by rcuadro

It has almost the same number of 1 star reviews as it has 5 star... strange

These are from mid-series - when her writing began to go downhill - so the 5 star reviews are from fans who buy anything she writes, and the 1 star reviews are from fans bitterly disappointed by books with plots that made very little sense.

JSWolf · 11-19-2009, 03:34 PM

The problem is that the entire series is not available as eBooks and until they are, I suggest not buying anything in the series. Actually, it seems the first five are only available in the UK. Why do we have this sort of nonsense?

ficbot · 11-19-2009, 04:55 PM

Yes, I saw these on Fictionwise and they are the mid-series ones. I only like the early ones before she went third-person-literary and started doing really dumb things with the characters.

koland · 11-19-2009, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I came very close to buying this when i first saw it........then realized they didn't even put the books in chronological order.!
Postmortem (1990)
Body of Evidence (1991)
All That Remains (1992)
Cruel and Unusual (1993

This isn't even the books in the collection.

This one has books 11, 12, 14 and 15 (skipping #13, Trace). Presumably it has a TOC, so the order in the collection makes little difference.

desertgrandma · 11-19-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by koland

This isn't even the books in the collection.

This one has books 11, 12, 14 and 15 (skipping #13, Trace). Presumably it has a TOC, so the order in the collection makes little difference.

I realize that. I posted the first 4 books in the series.

poohbear_nc · 11-20-2009, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I realize that. I posted the first 4 books in the series.

These were available earlier as Scarpetta Collection vol. 1 - I bought it - but it's not listed now on Amazon.

--abc-- · 11-20-2009, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I came very close to buying this when i first saw it........then realized they didn't even put the books in chronological order.!
Postmortem (1990)
Body of Evidence (1991)
All That Remains (1992)
Cruel and Unusual (1993

Its important to read these in the proper order, the character development adds to the experience.

Someone dropped the ball...but it was good of you to post it anyway!

So, the books in the package are not the start of the series? Then I will stay away from it.

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11-19-2009, 01:35 PM	#1
poohbear_nc Compulsive Reader Posts: 939 Karma: 4099 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Kindle 1 & 2 & DX!	4 Scarpetta Novels - $7.99 - Kindle http://www.amazon.com/Four-Scarpetta...8651960&sr=1-6 Don't know if this is a typo - but you can get 4 novels for the price of one. This package originally debuted with a price over $30, then settled in at $28. Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans. __________________ "I read about that in a thing with actual pages in it. A quaint thing where you flip the paper over. A book. That was it" (Ford Prefect in And Another Thing) Now reading: The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan The Labours of Hercules - Agatha Christie Moby Dick - Herman Melville More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham

11-19-2009, 02:21 PM	#2
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 9,617 Karma: 55355 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Surprise Arizona Device: 1 Kindle1, and an Asus 1000HE!	I came very close to buying this when i first saw it........then realized they didn't even put the books in chronological order.! Postmortem (1990) Body of Evidence (1991) All That Remains (1992) Cruel and Unusual (1993 Its important to read these in the proper order, the character development adds to the experience. Someone dropped the ball...but it was good of you to post it anyway!

11-19-2009, 03:03 PM	#3
rcuadro Guru Posts: 968 Karma: 1323 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Device: Kindle 2	It has almost the same number of 1 star reviews as it has 5 star... strange