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Hornet's Nest--> The first book in the Andy Brazil series--> Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss Hammer but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should ride on patrol with her to better relations with their citizens. Her worst fears are confirmed when the reporter Brazil presses the button to activate the boot-release rather than the siren on their first outing. He's not the only blight on her life right now: her cat's angsty her hormones are misbehaving her opposite number in the uniformed division is behaving like a jackass the radio despatcher is determined to trip her up and the D.A. is in the middle of a hot battle with the trial schedule. And orange coloured corpses keep turning up on her patch...Southern Cross--> The second book in the Andy Brazil series--> Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city. She brings with her Deputy Chief Virginia West and Andy Brazil now a full-time police officer. They find a lot of things they are all too familiar with - teenage gangs a rash of robberies at cash dispensers street corner drug-dealing racial tensions too many people with too many guns and a cardiac inducing lack of parking spaces. They also meet resentment from the established police force and over-high expectations from the city's institutions. Then a computer virus crashes the police computer freezing their screens with a design of blue fish and the same blue fish appears on the statue of Jefferson Davis which a graffiti artist has turned into a black basketball player and a gang called the Pikes claim it is their symbol which also has links to the robberies. In an incredibly fast-moving police procedural Patricia Cornwell takes her readers on a roller-coaster ride of action and emotion...
