La cruz del Sur / Southern Cross

from Carol420

Police chief Judy Hammer is tasked to clean up the city of Richmond, Virginia in the span of a one year term. She is assisted by Officer Andy Brazil and Deputy Chief Virginia West. As a team, they will clean up Richmond and fix all of the police department's problems, with an ultimate goal of uni...

from AliceAnna

A very puzzling choice. Abandoning Kay Scarpetta, the author seems to have lost focus. Too funny to be taken seriously, yet too violent to be taken as a comedy. I don't know what her intent was, but it was a mixed bag, lacking coherence. Not bad, but not good.

from dougwood57

I have enjoyed several of Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta novels, but found this story hard to finish. The story is implausible in just about every respect from beginning to end. The Richmond Police Chief, her deputy and their young assistant are brought in from Charlotte on a short-term (one-year????) ...

from babemuffin

The plan was to read Masie Dobbs for this tag but after I read Hornet's nest for the Crime tag, I really wanted to pick up Southern Cross as it's the sequel to Hornet's nest. I like Hornet's nest better than Southern Cross. This book seems a little bit disjointed to me, a bit all over the place k...

from delphimo

Hammer, West, and Brazil go to battle crime in Richmond, Virginia. Cornwell revels in exploring historic information. After each novel, I investigate to verify the data. Jefferson F Davis and his second wife, Varina, are buried in Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, Virginia. The cemetery also conta...