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The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 641567
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0684195976
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684195971
ASIN: 0684195976
Publication Date: September 1994
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 The Body Farm September 27, 2008
Coma white (Hampshire)
This is the 5th in Cornwell's acclaimed Kay Scarpetta series and it is just as good as the first 4 amazing books in the series.
Scarpetta is investigating the death of school girl Emily Steiner and she begins to think that her old nemisis Temple Gault may have struck again. Meanwhile she has to deal with her neice Lucy being accused of stealing highly classified information from the FBI.
Cornwell is a master in the genre and binds the threads of her characters tightly and keeps the reader hooked.
I'll definately be reading the next book in the series and I hope Cornwell keeps up this high standard.
Really Good September 27, 2006
dizzyshelly (Poole, England)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the second book I have read by Cornwell and also the second in this series. I really enjoyed it and thought it was actually better then the previous one I read (Cruel and Unusual I think). I defo will be reading the rest of this series.
 The Body Farm June 1, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Cornwell does it again. Another trip into the horrors of forensic pathology, with a smattering of the main characters' private lives thrown in, in a way that accentuates the story rather than turning it into a soap. You will have to read the rest now, then all of them again, in order! Great Stuff!
 The Body Farm January 17, 2005
Rich Milligan (Thatcham, Berkshire)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Being number five in the series of Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, any fan would now be enjoying not only the excellent individual storylines of these books, but also enjoying the connecting themes that run through the series. Unfortunately this is where The Body Farm fell a little short of the previous books for me.**Possible Spoilers** Firstly again Scarpetta has undergone a major personal change since the last book that doesn't seem to be totally covered. At the end of the previous book, Cruel and Unusual, she was planning to work more closely with FBI Profiler Benton Wesley and then this books starts with her not only working with him but embarking on an affair with him also. Whilst I don't question the possibility of this happening it would have been nice to have had longer to see the relationship develop, not see them jump into bed in the opening chapters. Secondly the book centres on the happenings of Lucy, Dr Scarpetta's niece, who was never my favourite character in the books. Whilst trying to explain Lucy's insecurities and anger at her own mother I've always found her character comes over as spoilt and ungrateful rather than sad and tragic. At first I was dreading reading so much about her, but actually by the time of finishing the book I have warmed slightly to her character, not least because the books describes the first face to face meeting of Dr Kay and Lucy's mother, her sister, Dorothy. A wonderful self-centred bitchy character that is great fun to read. The actually "thriller" storyline in the book is good, but again not maybe as good as some of those that have gone before. Scarpetta, who is forever reminding everyone else that evidence and proof is needed to suspect someone of a crime, seems to leap on the eventual suspect in this murder very early on and pursues her on what seemed to me to be very flimsy clues. Not the strongest book in the series, but I will definitely return for more.
The best Scarpetta Novel by far January 28, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved this book more than any of the other Scarpetta novels. It is just so fast paced and keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through wondering who's the goody / baddy and you learn a lot about forensic science along the way. Very informative and a fab you won't be able to put it down read.
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