Articles tagged New York City Police Department
Veteran detective Eddie Argo (Stellan Skarsgård) and his new partner Helen Wescott (Melissa George) meet at the scene of a homicide. The pregnant girlfriend of a known thug has been found murdered and further investigating reveal a serial killer at work with a taste for torture. As the pair try to figure out who is behind the killing and why, things get personal when they find that this serial killer is not picking the victims at random, all of them being key players in a past criminal case Eddie had fumbled. The killer seems to be serving out a form of perverted justice while simultaneously using the victims to test out a mathematical equation. [Read more...]
Tags: Ashley Walters, Barbara Adair, Crime, Melissa George, New York City Police Department, NYPD Blue, Peter Ballance, Selma Blair, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hardy, Tom Shankland
Many consider Patricia Cornwell to be the best of the best when it comes to crime writing. She is widely known for her novels featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, ME. I have to admit, I was once on the Scarpetta bandwagon. I devoured each and every book based on the character. Then it finally dawned on me that each book had the same story line, written over and over; Cornwell just invented a new name for the same cunning, vicious, and intelligent bad guy. And with each book, Scarpetta’s niece began to develop almost inhuman superpowers! Lucy is a jack-of-all-trades. She’s a whiz computer geek; she’s a millionaire; she can fly; she can shoot; she’s a spy; she’s a murderer. She was such a bad-ass, the FBI didn’t even want her. I don’t find her to be a believable character and I expect Lucy will be revealed to be an alien in some future novel. [Read more...]
Tags: Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kay Scarpetta, Murder, New York City, New York City Police Department, Patricia Cornwell, Scarpetta
