Scarpetta Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18), Book 18, (Paperback)

from WeeziesBooks

This Scarpetta book Port Mortuary is a bit more convoluted than some of her books. Scarpetta had been reassigned to a new forensic center for 6 months and not in charge of her own lab. She left her long time friend Jack Fielding in charge of her lab. However, she was supposed to be cut off from a...

from exlibrismcp

The suspense and personal angst promised at the beginning of the book are quite a letdown to the reader. The setup leads one to believe that Scarpetta's mysterious past experience is somehow connected to her current case. Yet, upon completion of the book I am still scratching my head wondering wh...

from JosephLYoung

Convoluted story with lots of details glorifying equipment used by a state Medical Examiner as a Forensic Scientist. Lots of ghosts of the past haunted the story as the dead started to pile up. Kay Scarpetta agonized over real and imagined motivations of her mentors, peers, family and interns whi...

from lrobe190

Port Mortuary, is literally a port for the dead. Kay Scarpetta, now the chief medical examiner of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, is involved in a couple of cases: the mysterious sudden death of a man and the murder of a child (whose confessed killer seems to be innocent). Soo...

from maureen61

I am a huge fan of Patricia Cornwell. I have read all of the Scarpetta books. This one is a disappointment. I was frustrated by the story that featured Scarpetta as an indecisive, troubled womanso unlike her other depictions in past novels. I felt she was disrespected by her husband, niece Lucy a...