At Risk
Written by Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by Kate Reading
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: "Any crime, any time." In particular, she's been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she's found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right?
Her investigator is not so sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman, really-but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It's not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed . . . and they're about to get much worse.
Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.
Patricia Cornwell
In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Adventure prize—the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development. Today, Cornwell’s novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper’s identity, cookbooks, a children’s book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and two other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano and Andy Brazil. While writing Quantum, the first book in the Captain Chase series, Cornwell spent two years researching space, technology, and robotics at Captain Calli Chase’s home base, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and studied cutting-edge law enforcement and security techniques with the Secret Service, the US Air Force, Space Force, NASA Protective Services, Scotland Yard, and Interpol. Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston and Los Angeles.
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Reviews for At Risk
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5At Risk by Alice Hoffman; (5*)Another beyond beautiful novel from Alice Hoffman; of a family in torment over the coming loss of a child. Hoffman's characters are always spot on and her story development superb. In this novel, her most fascinating characters are not the primarys but the back-burner ones.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/53.5 Stars. Not quite a 4 from me but deserves more than 3. I quite enjoyed most of these short stories although a few I felt were lacking something and one I skipped altogether after the first couple pages. I did mostly enjoy it though but the stories were not what I normally get into.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5medicine has come a long way since the 1980s; unfortunately, people haven't.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book has taken me MONTHS to read. It's very sad, and a little boring... Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors so I'm very dissapointed in how I feel about this book... For what it was the book was good, but it's not at all the genre I'm interested in, or the genre I'm accustomed to from Alice Hoffman... She doesn't usually make me cry...
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Could've sworn I wrote a review. I remember being quite moved by this - I wish I knew why I gave it three stars instead of four...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the early AIDS-related novels, this work is not only powerful and important, but beautifully conceived and written. Hoffman tackles a narrative that addresses the effects of disease on an American family in a way that paints a powerful story in itself, while still bringing into account the particular questions and worries that arise with AIDS cases. Hoffman's work here is necessary and serious, but the humor and beauty she finds a way to include are the aspects that make this book so striking. Hoffman didn't write a novel about AIDS, as so many authors have--she wrote a surprisingly uplifting story about a young vibrant girl and her family facing the unfairness and the beauty of life. Yes, this is a serious book, and difficult to take---it is also absolutely worth your time in all respects, and has everything you could hope for in a novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5AIDS: a difficult subject but covered gently and with love, written when AIDS was a death sentence and when the fear was palpable - well written, worth reading, and thankfully already dated (at least in 1st world countries)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hoffman wrote this book in 1988, when AIDS was still very new and misunderstood. It is the heartbreaking story of Amanda, a budding gymnast who is diagnosed with AIDS, contracted through a blood transfusion. This depicts the struggle of the family to understand what is happening, while facing ostracism from members of the community. Have tissues nearby
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like all of Ms Hoffman's books, this is a winner, the story of a family struggling with the terminal illness of a child. Eleven year old Amanda, contracts the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion, given five years prior. Written in 1988, at a time when AIDS was a speedy death verdict, the book also chronicles the intolerance and prejudice such families endured. Amanda wants to stay in school but many parents don't want her there. The book is far superior to Jodi Picault's "My Sister's Keeper" and I highly recommend it .