The Front | Patricia Cornwell

The Front | Patricia Cornwell | This little book is Cornwell's worst.

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The Front

	The Front Patricia Cornwell Putnam Adult, 2008 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 217 reviews view larger image
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The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America?s #1 bestselling crime writer.

When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying: ?At Risk is Cornwell?s finest novel. It works in every way possible? fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prose? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch); ?Absolutely the best. Here?s hoping we?ll see more of Win, Monique, Nana and Sykes in the coming years. They are the best characters to emerge from Cornwell?s creative pen since . . . well, Kay Scarpetta? (The Denver Post).

At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a notinconsiderable chip on his shoulder; District Attorney Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garano?s grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril.

And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she?s sending him to Watertown to ?come up with a drama,? and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they don?t have to be so dependent on the state?much to Lamont?s anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here?but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he?ll find that Lamont?s task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors?everywhere he turns, he?s not quite sure if what he?s seeing is true.

?Falsehoods rule,? warns his grandmother. And they can also kill.

This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind The Front.

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Poor

I am a Patricia Cornwell fan, but am finding myself questioning as of late WHY???!!! The Front was slow to start and when it did pick up speed, it faltered once again.

Though there were limited pages, it didn't captivate; forcing one to wonder if it was a rushed publication.

Nevertheless, I'm going to give Ms. Cornwell another chance with "Scarpetta" and hopefully it will allow me to continue as a fan and if not, its one less book purchased in the future.

This little book is Cornwell's worst.

I used to really enjoy Patricia Cornwell's work, but I got very little enjoyment out of The Front. It's a small book, more of a novella than a novel. The publisher reduced the overall size of the book and set the type with line-and-a-half spacing just to make it appear as if you're getting you're money's worth. The plot just doesn't ever develop. Without very much explanation as to how, the 40-something year old mystery is solved. Detective Win reads an old box of files from the original case and without revealing very much to the reader about what he finds in the files, he announces just what had happened. I won't be buying any more books in this series.

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