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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780743493918
ISBN number: 0743493915
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: November 30, 2004
Publishing house: Pocket
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.
Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows....
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I haven't read a great deal of Patricia Cornwell, despite the fact that she is arguably the most successful crime writer alive in terms of sales. BODY OF EVIDENCE is the second Kay Scarpetta novel, written all the way back in 1991. I thought it was just an okay read.
Seventeen years ago, BODY OF EVIDENCE was probably considered quite cutting edge for its time. In this book, Kay Scarpetta is a chief medical examiner who utilizes a great deal of forensic science to discover the identity of a serial killer. Before shows like CSI, this type of plotline was probably a breath of fresh air.
BODY OF EVIDENCE holds up okay, but it ultimately resembles an episode of a rather forgettable forensic TV series. The murder plot is decently constructed, although way too convoluted for my tastes. This relatively short book has a large number of subplots, and I didn't think that Cornwell did a particularly good job of connecting all of these plots together in a tight, coherent package.
Still, it's hard to deny that Cornwell is a fine wordsmith, and there's some awfully good writing here that's far above the norm. Despite this fact, there's something about her writing style I find off-putting -- it's most likely the remarkably dark view she possesses of human nature. Almost all the characters in this book are psychopathic, psychologically dysfunctional, bigoted, corrupt, or ethically compromised in some fashion or another. It doesn't help that heroine Scarpetta is relatively dour, humorless heroine for much of this novel's storyline.
I plan on reading a few more of Cornwell's Scarpetta books to see if they get any better. I liked BODY OF EVIDENCE slightly more than the very first Scarpetta novel, POST MORTEM, but not by much.
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Although Ms. Cornwell is wordy, and sometimes it's irritating, I feel she weaves quite a tale. This book is interesting and a definite page-turner, if only to bypass the descriptions and needless explainations for the nitty-gritty "that's what I read Cornwell for" stuff!!
I've read every book in the Scarpetta series and I feel as though I could visit Kay, Lucy, Pete, etc. if I happened to find myself in Richmond. Ms. Cornwell is always a treat!
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This book along with all the others in this series are wonderful and full of suspense. Will keep you guessing the entire time!
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When I had read over half of the book and I still was not interested nor felt strongly about any of the characters, I decided to call it quits. This was my very first time to read Patricia Cornwell and I definitely prefer others like Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, John Grisham, etc.
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This is one of Cornwell's strongest books, Scarpetta is at her most interesting, I had read this book several years ago, but had to reread it, to remember that Cornwell at one time could actually write. I've read her lastest Book of Death, and was like, did I ever like these characters? and the answer is..yes..well Scarpetta anyway,..i always disliked, the racist, homophobic, obtuse, moron Marino, Cornwell has him promoted book after book, and im like..WHY, he's a fool!!!, maybe now that he has assaulted Kay in the last book, he's finally gone..we can only hope..anyway, this book is very good, if for no other reason than Lucy is not mentioned. I liked the twist and the mental hospital angle was truely creepy. The characters are at their most interesting and you remember why you liked Kay so much. You remember that she used to not be so negative and she was happy once, you forget that if you read Cornwell's last few books, my own personal opinion is that Cornwell herself used to be happy, but now she must be the biggest "B" on earth, because all he main characters are hateful and loathe each other. As for this book, it's very good, I always like Scapetta in Richmond as Chief Medical Examiner, she was at her best..at the top of her game..the same could be said for Ms. Cornwell..my advice to her would be to reread her early books, and recapture her talent...if not just please retire to your millions and once and foreall, put poor Scapetta to rest...she'd be doing us all a favor.
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