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Paperback Post-mortem Book

ISBN: 0380710218

ISBN13: 9780380710218

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The inspiration for the Prime Video series Scarpetta--starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis Discover the "dazzling...fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the popular Kay Scarpetta series, from the New York Times #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Patricia Cornwell's debut novel Postmortem introduces one of crime fiction's most compelling characters: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's gift for combining cutting-edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it's being sabotaged from within--and someone wants her dead. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Customer Reviews

20 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 4 stars
Fast paced enjoyable

This book is a fast paced enjoyable read. The characters can be a bit hard to grow a liking to at first, but I feel the story makes up for it. The explanation of forensics, and the pov of a medical examiner makes for an entertaining read.

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Rated 4 stars
A good beginning to a series...

Reading "post Mortem" is like getting to know the Chief ME of the Commonwealth of Va., up close and personal. To know what ticks her off, what are her strengths, and her weaknesses, how she is at a glass ceiling where she must fight with male colleagues, out to prove her inadequate in more than one ways - all of that and much more. This being the first in the Scarpetta series, the book shows a lot of promise, by showing a...

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Rated 5 stars
Unputdownable!

Body of Evidence is the first of many Scarpetta tales of gruesome crime, murder and investigation. If you like a book that can make the hair stand on the back of your neck, give you goose-bumps, make you cringe and totally put you off that cup of coffee, read this! Absolutely compulsive reading. The best book I have read in a long time. And it just gets better with each consecutive novel!

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Rated 5 stars
Some of Cornwell's best work!

This was my first Patricia Cornwell book, and I really really liked it. It was full of suspense and gripping fear. I loved the Kay Scarpetta charcter. The way she is independant and a sucessful female doctor. The story was full of twists and turns and as soon as you thought you had it down it took a wild change. I really thought this was an amazing book.

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Rated 4 stars
Predictable

I had the opportunity to listen to this book when I was making a 9 hour drive. Not bad but predictable. Didn't put me to sleep obviously, but could have been a little less predictable. Would I read or listen to other books by Ms. Cornwell: Yes.

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