The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell

The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell: I Didn't Know Bodies Grew On A Farm! (351 words)
by darkwarrior - written on 23.07.01 (Useful, 466 readings)
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I enjoy reading Patricia Cornwell's novels about death and murder. Her style of writing lends depth and drags you into the murder scence. The plot grabs you and won't let you go till the very end. Patricia Cornwell's The Body Farm features Kay Scarpetta, a consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI's Behavioral Science unit. Kay is a stubborn Italian who refuses to be scared off. Kay is shocked when Lucy, her neice, is accused of security violation at Quantico, FBI's main headquarters. Gualt pops up again when little Emily is murdered and is considered a suspect. Lucy's problems are mixed in the plotline while Kay is ...

Saw it coming (248 words)
by Pingu - written on 28.06.00 (Useful, 73 readings)
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I am a great admirer of Patricia Cornwell’s books. I think her writing style is superb, her characters believable and developing rather than static, the quality of technical detail flawless, and the plots thoroughly gripping. So I am slightly confused as to how she managed to miss so badly with this one. The main problem is the plot. You can see the murderer from the beginning. I don’t want to give too much away, but a few things don’t add up in someone’s statement, and it is plain as day that she did it from about page 20. Which leaves you with 350 pages of watching Cornwell engineer ways to prevent the investigative team seeing it. ...

The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell: More in the Scarpetta saga (156 words)
by - written on 24.06.00
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It is exciting, fast moving, thrilling and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I love the depth in which Patricia Cornwell delves into her characters - we've seen Benton and Marino up close and personal, at their best and at their worst, now it's our turn to see Lucy. As is her usual approach, the characters are colourful and dramatic. With this title, I wasn't sure what I was picking up to read -- it gave me the mental image of a Frankenstein type book. The Body Farm is actually a research facility in Tennessee where Scarpetta discovers gruesome experiments that may lead to answering her questions and to finding Gault. So my original assessment ...