Hornet's Nest
Patricia Cornwell, 1996
Cornwell leaves the morgue for a whole Southern city: an angry deputy chief, a rookie reporter and the crimes swarming between them.
Patricia Cornwell
Before Scarpetta, Cornwell was a police reporter at the Charlotte Observer; she later worked inside Richmond's medical examiner's office, where her most famous character was born.
Feels like tenderness, freedom and death.
What it feels like to watch the world through a pane of glass.
Brazil had never felt he belonged here or anywhere, really. It was as if he watched people through a pane of glass. He could not touch others no matter how hard he tried, and they could not touch him, unless they were mentors. He had been falling in love with teachers, coaches, ministers, campus security, administrators, deans, doctors, nurses since he could remember. They were accepting, even appreciative, of his unusual reflections and solitary peregrinations, and the writings he shyly shared when he visited after hours, usually bearing limeades from the M&M soda shop or cookies from his mother’s kitchen. Brazil, simply put, was a writer, a scribe of life and all in it. He had accepted his calling with humility and a brave heart. Books by Patricia Cornwell
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