I found this book frustrating. Not in a terrible authoring way but in terms of how the characters reacted. They reacted like normal people rather than them defeating the antagonist in a perfect way.

The story arc with Mark went in a way I wasn’t expecting.

The last few chapters were properly thrilling.

And I say I only read thrillers to be able to talk to my customers about then? Ha. I’m quite enjoying this series.

I read some of this series long ago, out of order and missed several. I started rereading them from the beginning. This is one I missed. A good series and I easily get caught up in the story.

This is the 5th book from Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series.

This is the worst of the series that I have read so far. Cornwell spends the first 100 pages covering medical technology at Quantico and she takes forever getting into the story. Once she does she proceeds to take all the characters in the series and make you dislike them. Kay and Wesley have an affair that goes on throughout the book-whenever they can get it on they do despite Wesley being married. Marino is a needy slug who is upset about Kay liking Wesley and not him. He then gets used by hooking up with someone who clearly doesn't care about him at all. Lucy is an alcoholic and is gay.

Oh yeah, there is a story behind all of this. A little girl is killed in a manner similar to the killer from the last book-Temple Gault. Others involved in the investigation die too. Take away the massacre of the main characters and the book investigation is pretty entertaining.

I hope Cornwell can resurrect her characters in the next few books because right now I am not a fan of any of them.

Entretenido, aunque previsible.

no sabía lo mucho que necesitaba este tipo de libros hasta que leí uno JAJAJJAJAJA

The Body Farm is a good story. Although, I did guess the killer's identity the minute he/she was introduced. (You probably did too.) What is strange is that Cornwell dedicated the book to Senator Orrin Hatch (apparently for his help in getting funding for the FBI in the big crime bill), and creates a very superfluous character based on him, and Cornwell's politics surface. Senator "Frank Lord" intervenes to rescue Scarpetta's 21-year-old niece from scandal at the FBI Academy, and Scarpetta and Lord have some nice sitdowns in Lord's luxurious office filled with many beautiful paintings. At their final meeting Lord tells Scarpetta that "NOW's picketing, and my opponent remains very busy painting me as a woman hater with horns and a pointed tail." [That's the National Organization for Women.] Scarpetta replies smarmily, "You've done more for women than anyone I know. Especially this one right here." Ugh.

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Two-haiku review:

Little girl murdered
Kay thinks serial killer
Then she's in danger

Interesting book
Main plot plus sub-plot with niece
All's not as it seems

kay shows some bad-ass moves as she performs ante-, peri- and postmortem bullet surgery on a perp with pete's pump-action winchester

Do I like PC or do I not like PC? I'm tending toward the latter with this book. It's the 2nd PC book I've read. Kay is unappealing as a main character, and grows even moreso the more I read her. Is it believable that she has all of these incredible insights into fingerprints, car wrecks, etc. that ever other law enforcement agency & specialty misses? Please! Are we to be ambivilent and accepting of the fact that she is an active accomplice in marriage-wrecking? Above and beyond this, there's just nothing relatable, enjoyable, and interesting about her character.

As to the storyline, I guessed many of the clues prior to their revelation. The story was slow-moving, and I bored easily. Has taken me a very long time to read this book.

summerween thriller - classic thriller to start us off!

2.5

My mistake -- in my review of the previous book, I referred to the affair that didn't start until this one. It was, however, both set up and telegraphed in the previous one, so I'm going to leave that in the review.

I really hate it. We have a guy who until now was careful about even the appearance of impropriety, and now he's cheating on his wife repeatedly, over the course of (as becomes clear in the book following), several months? GAH!

OTOH, the Body Farm and the bit with the coin was fascinating, albeit squicky. So 3.5 for the murder and related plot, and -1 for the stupid and unbelievable affair.