Chaos

Name: Chaos
Rating: 3.89 (25879 reviews)
Author: Patricia Cornwell

Kay Scarpetta • Book 24

by Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by Susan Ericksen

3.89 ABR Score (25.9K ratings)

★ 3.68 Goodreads (23.2K) ★ 4.07 Audible (2.7K)

13h 2m Released 2016 Thriller

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Goodreads readers are cooling on Scarpetta by book twenty-four, but audio fans keep coming back — and Susan Ericksen is almost certainly why.

Great if you want: deep-cut procedural comfort from a long-running forensic series
Listening experience: methodical and slow-burn — more lab coat than white-knuckle
Narration: Ericksen has owned this character for decades; the fit is total
Skip if: you haven't read earlier Scarpetta books — context is assumed

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About This Audiobook

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is investigating what appears to be a lightning strike death beside the Charles River when the forensic evidence tells her something entirely different: this was no act of God. Before she can establish what it was, an anonymous cyberbully begins sending her cryptic poems, each arriving with unsettling precision relative to her investigation. When the poems start to suggest the sender knows things only someone involved in the crime could know, the case shifts from a forensic puzzle to a direct personal threat.

Susan Ericksen takes on the Scarpetta series in this later entry, her narration bringing the same authoritative command she applies to the In Death books to Cornwell's more baroque forensic world. Her voice handles the technical precision of the investigative sequences with ease while conveying the mounting paranoia that gives the novel its particular tension. At nearly thirteen hours, the production gives the conspiracy plenty of room to develop before the confrontation the title has been building toward.

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