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The Body Farm
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial killer who has long eluded the FBI But as she tries to make sense of the evidence, she is left with questions that lead her to the Body Farm, a little known research facility in Tennessee where, with the help of some grisly experiments, she might discover the answer.
It is Scarpetta alone who can interpret the forensic hieroglyphics that eventually reveal a solution to the case as staggering as it is horrifying. But she must also endeavor to help her niece, Lucy, who is embroiled in controversy at Quantico. And Scarpetta, too, is vulnerable, as she opens herself to the first physical and emotional bond she has felt in far too long a time. Tenacious and brilliant, tender and gentle, this is Scarpetta even more realized and poignant than we’ve seen her before—in a stunning achievement from a bestselling author at the peak of her powers.
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Reviews
What an incredibly informative book. Before reading Patricia Cornwell, I had no that the University of Tennessee had such a program, nor that such experiments were being performed on donated bodies. At first I was taken aback. It also reminded me of the two criminals in Edinburgh, Scotland, who not only obtained corpses illegally, by digging them up from cemeteries, they actually started to kill people to sell their bodies to the medical school in the Edinburgh to medical students at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. They were eventually caught and executed. I’ve gotten off the point. In The Body Farm, it is explained how people donate their bodies to the school so that the PhD students, coroners, law enforcement, etc. can study how different bodies decompose in different situations. Such as, a body knifed, rolled up in a Persian rug, put in a hollowed out log and left out in the open air during the hottest part of a summer in the Deep South. The wrapping will delay decomp to a degree, but the fact that blow flies cannot reach the body as soon as they usually would, means time of death is not readily apparent to the law enforcement officers. I loved this series in the beginning, but later books were not my cup of tea.
By MStutts
Good story with some tweets ad turns but basically a Cornell thriller
By Body farm
Highly recommended!! I love this series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Crysgibs
My mom turned me on to true crime books, this was my first by this author. Very detailed and kept me turning the pages. Geat read for anyone interested in this genre!
By Kcdarlene
Uneven story flow. Good plot. Lots of mis-direction.
By John Fry