The Body Farm, Patricia Cornwell
The Body Farm, Patricia Cornwell
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The Body Farm

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/31/2023

Synopsis

When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets another chance at stopping one of the most heartless and horrifying serial killers of her career: the demented Temple Gault.

About Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is a Miami born, contemporary crime novelist. Her books usually feature the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is a medical examiner. After a way sad childhood, Cornwall graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English. She wrote a biography of a family friend entitled, “A Time for Remembering”, then renamed “Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham” in 1983. After working in a Virginia medical examiners for six years, she wrote the first installment of her “Scarpetta” series entitled “Postmortem”. Her six year job was valuable in including a lot of forensic science details in her “Scarpetta” series. Her novels are considered to have influenced the creation of the TV series on forensics such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case. In the same vein Cornwell made a brief appearance on the Criminal Minds episode “True Genius”, as herself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 29, 2023

Final Thoughts 4 of 5 stars to Patricia Cornwell's fifth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, The Body Farm, published in 1994. The title alone tells you what kind of book this will be, and it is full of thrills and suspense. Scarpetta has an opportunity to try to capture a serial killer she......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 27, 2024

No surprises ... just a thoroughly enjoyable forensic procedural investigation! Nothing unique or compelling here! No surprises, intrigue, thrills, spills or chills! Just a good solid police procedural that focuses on forensic investigation and is predictably interesting - no ... let's make that grip......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on December 11, 2016

As other reviewers have noted, the title 'The Body Farm' is a bit misleading since it doesn't come into the plot until near the end, and then it is as a sidebar, but its graphic descriptive inclusion and the good Dr. Kay Scarpetta's enthusiastic promotion for donating bodies for science totally rock......more

Goodreads review by Karla on January 28, 2024

Story 4 stars**⬇️ Audio 3.5 stars** Narrator C.J. Critt......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 27, 2024

In a rural area of North Carolina, a young girl is brutally murdered. The FBI is called in when clues lead police to the possibility that a serial killer is the culprit. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is asked to be a consultant due to the fact that she has first-hand knowledge of the serial killer, Temple Gault......more

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