Blow Fly - Patricia Cornwell

Book review: 5/10
Binding:Paperback
Publisher:Berkley
Pages:480
Date:2004-09-07
ASIN:0425198731



Synopsis:

We encounter Scarpetta languishing in a crumbling little rental house in Florida. She has taken refuge there and become a private forensic consultant after she was driven from her job for her alleged involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief. The violent death of her lover, Benton Wesley, the brilliant FBI psychological profiler, has left her filled with an unappeasable grief. When the coroner in Baton Rouge asks her advice on a cold case concerning an affluent woman found dead of a drug overdose in a seedy hotel, it seems little more than a diversion. Yet it becomes clear that the overdose may be related to a fresh string of serial killings. Also disturbing Scarpetta's somber peace is a troubling letter from someone out to kill her, the sick and obsessed death-row inmate Jean-Baptiste.

When Scarpetta is at last allowed to get back to business, she is a feisty, independent powerhouse whose capacity to concentrate and observe rivals Sherlock Holmes's. But too much of this book is bound up in retrospective musings about events in previous books. The great Scarpetta, her fiery crime-busting niece, Lucy, and a colorful supporting cast deserve better.



I've read this book last year and my first impression about it was that it seemed to be very interesting book...It had the potencial...I really enjoyed it...I've seen a few bad reviews about it but I thought that it was good. About the ending I totally agree that it's a bit disapponting... It had a rush end. the author could have done a better end...But inspite of this I liked it.