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Christie? Sue Grafton?
Sara Paretsky? Karen Kijewski?
Linda Barnes?

How about my latest find, Patri-
cia D. Comwell, who has published
five Kay Scarpetta detective novels
since 1990?

Beginning
Wee he Oe
Postmortem,
which won the
Edgar, Creasey,

Anthony and
Macavity
Awards all in one
year, Cornwell
introduced a
chief medical
officer as her version of the sleuth.

This person who seeks beyond
the obvious is ndne other than Dr.
Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical
Officer for the State of Virginia.

Scarpetta’s home is Richmond,
Virginia, where she runs the state
morgue and functions as a foren-
sic pathologist. In other words,
after murdered bodies have been
discovered and shipped to her
lab, she cuts them up and tests to
discover what happened.

The details Cornwell gives us
about the forensic procedures might
be too gruesome for some readers.
Those readers who suggested Com-
well’s novels to me, however, were
fascinated by the specifics of these
lab procedures. They were intrigued
that the information gained could
lead to a killer's identity.

Having worked in the forensic
science field for a number of
years before becoming a novelist,
Cornwell takes us to the last
blood cell of detail about this line
of work. While the lab work par-
ticulars are intriguing, the infor-
mation arising from lab results is
even more startling.

In these novels, Scarpetta’s
job takes her to the scene of a
killing. Normally, she gets to
take evidence samples before the
body is touched

After she has gathered tissue,
blood and fibre samples from
around a body, she authorizes the

raws from forensic past

Postmortem an
award winning novel

deaths. The more she examines

the bodies and the death scenes,

the closer she gets to the killer, |
In this novel, the killer is like a

away
them, releases
them in the
backwoods
with their
hands tied and
proceeds to
a
GORDON In Cruel
and Unusual
TURNER (1993), Scar-
petta exam-
ines the corpse of a boy who has
had two patches of flesh removed
from his body after he was killed.

This clue leads back
to a much earlier murder of a
woman whose death had a similar
profile. Cruel and Unusual intro-
duces us to a bizarre killer named
Temple Gault, who escapes just
as the novel concludes. He
appears again in Scarpetta's next
two novels. +

In The Body Farm (1994), he
is suspected of being involved in
the death of a young girl, but the
murder turns out to be a copycat
murder. We do, however, sense
that Gault is not far away, plot-
ting new horrors.

In From Potter’s Field (1995),
Scarpetta engages once again
with Temple Gault.

The scene is New York, rather
than Virginia, and Scarpetta is
called in because of the type of
murder. Again, a young woman is
brutalized and patches of her
flesh are. missing. In a series of
strange twists—the dead woman
turns out to be Gault’s own sis-
ter—the novel winds down to a
heart-stopping finale beneath the
streets of New York.

As you can probably tell by
now, the killers are men who
have enormous problems—
often problems connecting to
women, sometimes physiologi-
cal inadeq and fr

body's removal.

Later, she sets up the lab pro-
cedures to uncover the body’s
processes while it was dying.
Thereafter, she works closely with
police, detectives, and the FBL

Cornwell has chosen serial
killers and murdered women—
and sometimes children—as her
focus. In Postmortem (1990),
Scarpetta must come to grips
with a serial killer who is attract-
ed to women by their voices. She
figures out who the killer might
be because of smells left at the
crime-scene.

In Body of Evidence (1991),
Scarpetta must deal with bodies
of women who have been slashed
badly as they've been killed. She
herself is the last target of this
killer, and he comes to within
inches of killing her, too.

In All That Remains (1992),

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mental imbalances resulting
from childhood.

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attacked are often innocent vic-
tims who are in the wrong place at
the wrong time or who are friend-
ly to people who normally can be
trusted. Where have you heard
about these situations before?

Indeed, we're never allowed to
forget that Scarpetta herself is an
attractive woman who lives
alone—and can be got to. Women,
like Scarpetta, open their doors
everyday to decent types who tum
Out to be creeps—and who some-
times murder almost at whim.

Cornwell's novels are complex
but accessible. She keeps us
involved because the final details
to solve the murders are kept
from us until near the end. And
we Say, as does,— "yes,
oh my, yes”—that’s the missing
link. And we speed through the
final pages satisfied.

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1995 a year for

great albums
Countdown of the

12 best

of this year

What a year!

Of the nearly 200 new
albums I've reviewed since
Jan.1, here are the 12 I liked
Most, not necessarily the best.
Check this list against your
own and let's see how we do.

12. IN FROM
| THE STORM
Various Artists (RCA)
‘This Jimi Hendrix tribute album
brings noted rockers together with
the London
Metropolitan §
Orchestra to
take Hendix's
music to a
place I think
Jimi would've
wanted to
visit,
Keys:
“The Wind”,
“Cries
Mary” - Sting, “Spanish Castle
Magic” - Sass Jordan.

11. TEETH & TISSUE
The Headstones (MCA)
This Ontario-based outfit
makes nasty, jangly, guitar-driv-
en rock & roll. They rock hard,
but with a sly Doug & The
Slugs sort of sense of humor.
Keys: “Hindsight”, “Drop-
ping Dime Size Drops.”

10. MADE IN HEAVEN
Queen (Hollywood)

The final album from a bril-
liant band. Much of it was
recorded in the months just
prior to Freddie Mercury's
death, lending the disc an
overtly gloomy air and a
strangely warm feel. Hey, I still
love these guys.

Key “I's a Beautiful
Day”, “Mother Love.”

9. WELCOME TO THE
NEIGHBORHOOD
Meat Loaf (MCA)

I was surprised by this over-
the-top album. Meat gives his
best vocal performance on
record, new vocal partner Patti
Russo steams the place up and
I'd put this band up against
anyone. It’s not hip to like Meat
Loaf, but I’ve never been hip.

Keys: “I'd Lie For You (And
That's The Truth)”, “Where
The Rubber Meets The Road” .

8. RELISH
Joan Osborne (Mercury)
My favorite debut of the
year. Joan has‘a brash, sultry
quality to her songs and a voice
that Sheryl Crowe aspires to. I
can’t find one woman who likes
this album. They must find
overt sexuality embarrassing.
Keys: “Right Hand Man”,
“Let's Just Get Naked” .

7. GIN PALACE
Barney Bentall (Epic)

I have no idea why B B
isn’t HUGE. I've been digging
his stuff since ‘88. He’s made
3 other records and Gin Palace
is the best ... he just keeps get-
ting better.

Keys: “Shattered”, “Do Ya”.

6. ALL YOU CAN EAT
k.d. lang (Warner)

It’s true that next to Nat
King Cole, k.d. is my favorite
crooner. More pop than torch,
Eat isn’t as brutally confession-
al and raw as Ingenue, but it
does have a sweet way of invit-
ing you inside.

) KEREIFF

albums

Keys: “Sexuality”, “If!
Were You".

5. RAGGED ASS ROAD
Tom Cochrane (EMI)
He’s kept us waiting for this,
but his time was obviously well
spent. Much as I liked Mad
Mad World, this baby just
blows it right out of the tub.

JOHN

live acoustic
reworkings
of songs we
already know for the most part.
But as I said in the original
Teview, it me fall in love
with again.
Keys: “Up On Cherry Blos-
som Road”, “Crazy On You",
“All I Wanna Do Is Make Love
To You” .

3. JAGGED LITTLE PILL
Alanis Morrissette
(Atlantic)

No doubt whatsoever about
here. Don't recall reading about
it in “Rock File?” I submitted a
glowing review to The Sun, but
the editor at that time (who has
since vanished) lost it. Busy as
I am, I didn't notice it was
missing until researching
today’s column. Alanis is a
young gal from Ottawa and this
is a powerful, emotional record
that I can’t shake.

Keys: “. 1d In My Pock-
et”, “Ironic”

2. YOUR LITTLE SECRET
Melissa Etheridge
(Island)

I've only had this a couple
of weeks, but it’s pretty much a
given that I fall in love with
Melissa’s music. This is her
most electric album to date and
her words are as deep and pas-
sionate as ever. I don’t just like
the way this disc sounds, I like
the way it feels, too. Keys:
“Your Little Secret” and “This
War Is Over”. As my brother
Mike would say, “Wow.”

1. BALANCE
Van Halen (Warner Bros.)
I liked this when it first
came out, but lately I can’t get
it out of my head. It has some
kind of grip on me... I can’t get
through the day without hear-
ing Balance at LEAST once.
Keys: “I Can't Stop Loving
You", “Big Fat Money” and
“Take Me Back”.

That's it!

Thanks to Cori at MCA,
Ralph at Warner Canada,
Stephanie at A & M, Joe at
Polygram, Trevor at Sony
Music and all their fellow
record reps for making 1995 a
good year for “Rock File.”

Thanks here in town go to
Shirley, Stacy and everyone at
Pete's TV for their help and a
big, juicy thanks to Marilyn for
allowing me to be a part of The
Castlegar Sun.

See you next Wednesday
with a brand new batch of
reviews! Happy New Year!

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The lingering sights and smells of Christmas

“How dear to my heart are the
(Christmas) scenes of my child
hood, When fond recollections
presents them to view.”

With apologies to Samuel
Woodworth: The Old Oaken
Bucket.

Some of my best Christmas-
season memories go back almost
70 years ago to my family home
at the Nichols Chemical Works
on Burrard Inlet. |

They are a symphony of sights,
sounds, smells and the special,
smal] events which still brighten
the growing dimness of my mind.

It was a time before pre-pack-
aging, comer stores and Sunday
openings, so there was no time
for last-minute shopping.

You either made it at home or
you forgot about it. Christmas
preparations were, therefore,
begun early, Very carly.

Right after Hallowe'en, for
example, my mother would have
the two-gallon crock of mince-
meat, tangy and spicy, maturing
beside the home-made pickle
crock, wine-vinegary and
piquantly sweet, auguries of good
things to come.

It would be followed almost
immediately by the all-family
affair of Christmas pudding and
Christmas cake preparation in
which everyone, from Grandma

sors and, when we thought no
one was looking, slipped one into
our mouths.

Such extravagant richness!
Such flavor!
Others of us
sliced the green,
gold and yellow
hemispheres of
candied orange
and lemon, cit-
ron and lime, or
chopped plump,
tan-coloured
figs or dug the
pits from the shiny dark-brown
dates or peeled the transparent
parchment skin from the raw suet
and fed the fat, rosy lumps into
the hand turned mincer for the
Christmas pudding.

The more adept were given the
job of grating the whole nutmegs

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and a little bit of finger, on the
fine toothed nutmeg grater, or
picking the stems from the fresh
ly washed currents.

Candied
cherries went
in whole, of
course.

In the midst
of all of this
Savory chaos,
my mother
supervised,
sifted, mixed
with a wood-
en spoon and tasted everything
until everything was right.

Then into the greased paper
Pans it all went like golden lava,
or into the cloth-covered bowls,
while all the erstwhile’ helpers
crowded around to lick the spicy
remains from pots and spoons.

For days afterward, the house
would redolent with the bak-
ing of the \cakes in the coal and
wood stove and ring with the
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