Scarpetta Flesh and Blood, (Paperback)

from knittingmomof3

After a long break from Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series, I started seeing reviews that made me optimistic and I eagerly looked forward to the old writing style I used to wait for, unfortunately, this was not all I hoped it would be. Flesh and Blood is the 22nd book in Patricia Cornwell's...

from grumpydan

While getting ready for a birthday vacation, Dr. Kay Scarpetta notices seven shiny pennies on her stone wall. They all are from the same year as her niece Lucy's birth year. Then Pete Marino calls to tell that a teacher was murdered and there goes her vacation. A suspense story with the usual cas...

from ewhatley

I have read books by Patricia Cornwell for many years and she never disappoints me. Her character, Kay Scarpetta, is no-nonsense, beautiful, bright and unafraid. Scarpetta and her hunky FBI agent husband, Benton, make a perfect team, both professionally and personally. You can feel their mutual r...

from debavp

Good read, predictable if you've read the entire series in order, but not boring. My concern is that I saw shades of the angry Cornwell from the middle of the series and I hope that it was actually part of a particular character and not a resurrection of that style of writing. This was one of the...

from jamespurcell

Quick read with all the sustaining characters, except Marino, settling into their new territory. Some unique,aspects, trajectories, complicate the crime solving. An old, thought dead, enemy surfaces as the main suspect. Not a prime contender from this series.. Seems to have been written mostly on...