What do You think about Body Of Evidence (2004)?
Depois da leitura deste segundo volume da série policial com a médica legista Kay Scarpetta, já assimilei a fórmula Cornwell. Pode ser por este ser apenas o segundo volume, mas não me parece que a autora irá fugir do seu estilo de policial nos próximos enredos, mas cá estarei para o confirmar.Patricia Cornwell, em "Corpo de Delito", mostra-nos que os crimes, a maioria das vezes estão ligados entre teias intrincadas de vários acontecimentos em efeito dominó. Tudo começa com o assassínio de uma escritora apavorada por andar a ser perseguida, morrendo quando abre a porta ao seu assassino.O facto de haver uma fórmula não significa que o livro é mau ou que é previsível do tipo sei-logo-quem-é-o-assassino mas, porque, mais uma vez, o crime se envolve na vida da médica legista e se envolve no passado de Scarpetta. A investigação que ela faz nunca é totalmente imparcial e nunca é fria o suficiente para o ser. Chega, no entanto, a ser um ponto positivo, uma vez que nos mostra que ela é, para além de policial, um ser humano.Mas agradou-me todo o desenvolvimento da trama e o modo como a autora nos leva atrás de Scarpetta na busca do assassino. Toda a investigação policial e as técnicas forenses, bem patentes no livro, despertam a curiosidade no leitor e incentivam a virar a página. Quem venham os próximos!
—Andreia Silva
It had been a while since I read Post Mortem but the characters still felt like friends. Marino had grown on me quite a bit in the course of PM but in Body of Evidence I did find it quite hard to like him at times. His grammar is so rough and his views quite black and white but I do think this is supposed to be a part of his charm. You know where you are with Marino. I loved Body of Evidence it was gripping and had a great plot and good pace. Plenty of heart stopping moments which had me on the edge of my seat, almost turning pages faster than I could read them! Another great instalment in the Kay Scarpetta series.
—Hannah
The heroine is Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner in Virginia. Oh, no, you say, another Ouincv. Wrong, corpse-breath. Scarpetta is intelligent, short, (we don't know whether she is attractive or not, a relief) and she doesn't swoon over each drooling Sylvester Stallone imitation that happens by. (That's something I've always wondered about: How does Travis McGee, the blue-Rolls-Royce-truck-driving hero of John MacDonald's colored-titled novels avoid AIDS, since he seems to have the self-restraint of a male nymphomaniac? Anyway, Scarpetta is investigating the murder of a well-known novelist who has returned from the Florida Keys where she has been hiding from someone who keeps threatening to kill her. The night of her return she inexplicably opens the door to the murderer who does just that. The plot thickens as her former boyfriend, a lawyer, appears on the scene worried about her safety and to prevent her (he says) from crossing swords with a crooked entertainment lawyer (redundancy?) who desperately wants the victim's last manuscript. The book is filled with fascinating detail such as the difference between dextromethorphan and levomethorpan which has to do with right and left and why one is legal and the other not. Enough about the plot.
—Eric_W
