Quantum (Captain Chase #1)

Quantum by Patricia Cornwell
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Captain Chase Callie to her friends is unbelievable, those of you who are familiar with the Scarpetta series she makes Lucy look like a slacker and an underachiever. Callie has not one but two jobs as a Cybercrime investigator she is investigating a staged suicide of an employee whose badge went missing. As a quantum physicist she has to save a top secret space mission all while trying to unravel what her identical twin Carme (pronounced Karma) has to do with the mess. We haven't meet Carme in person yet but according to Callie she is even more impressive.

The characters all seem unbelievable and unlikable. I rate this series an epic fail and will skip it. I couldn't find even one character in the book to connect with Fran (Callie's boss @ NASA Protective Services) suffers from paranoia and a fear of enclosed spaces, supposedly stemming from an incident that happened years ago when she and her son were broke down in a deserted location. Carme was apparently molested when she was six and Callie left her alone with a family friend, and Carme's boyfriend Rush felt Callie up supposedly when he mistook her for Carme. Callie and Carme's Dad always lets someone else do the tough stuff including letting them know bad news and her Mom seems to be a Pollyanna obsessed with lights and Dick sounds well like a Dick.

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