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| Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta) | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  664 reviews
Sales Rank: 2471
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 042521625X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425216255
ASIN: 042521625X
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. And the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis star will usher in a string of murders more bafflingand terrifyingthan any that have come before.
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 Disappointing January 7, 2009
I don't recognize the characters we have come to know from the previous Sacarpetta novels. Boring, weird, and mean are some adjectives that come to mind. I am halfway through Book of the Dead, and am just about to give up. Interesting that all the reviews on the 'sellers' page are positive. Click on the balance and find the opposite, and many of them. This is my last Cornwell novel.
 Cornwell Disappoints January 6, 2009
Everyone in Kay Scarpetta's world is messed up and angry. Ms. Cornwell seems to have lost her character and supporting cast. The negativity from the characters permeates every page.
Giving Up December 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read all the Kay Scarpetta books and while the first four or five were excellent, these last few have really gone downhill. I don't like the way the characters have developed; they have all become self-absorbed and like another reviewer mentioned, they are all just weird! I couldn't keep reading this book and got bored with the dialog. I'm reading Scarpetta now and if it doesn't get better, this will be the last Patricia Cornwell book I'll purchase.
Loyalty Test December 27, 2008
This novel tests the loyalty of Kay Scarpetta followers. The third-person narration keeps the reader from getting close to the characters. We never get a feel for the killer--can't hate him, can't grudgingly respect the method to his madness, can't feel sorry for him; all because we know next to nothing about him. Can't really care about the victims, either. Of the recurring characters, only Marino (and Rose, to an extent) has texture, and even that is unsatisfying. The writing is cryptic. I could go on, but the bottom line is, you can skip this one. Bad Girls Finish First
I think it's time for Scarpetti to die a quiet death December 27, 2008
I read the earliest Scarpetta books with enthusiasm and enjoyment; but after 4 or 5, it got too repetitive and I lost interest. After a long interim, I picked up this book to get reacquainted. What a waste of time---the storyline was incoherent, disjointed, trite. What else can I say? Someone needs to kill off Scarpetta.
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