Post Mortem (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) [Library Binding]

Patricia D. Cornwell (Author), Begona Recasens (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2006 | Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)

1st installment of the Scarpetta Series.On Saturdays, and under the cover of night, in Richmond, a human monster strikes leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest forensic advances to unmask the madman; but this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it is being sabotaged by someone who wants her dead.
Description in Spanish: Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crimenes actua siempre los sabados, de madrugada, y deja muy pocas pistas. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del departamento de Medicina Legal de la ciudad, recibe una llamada a las 2.33, supone que algo grave ha sucedido: hay una cuarta victima. Kay Scarpetta recurrira a los ultimos avances en medicina legal y tendra que verselas con aquellos que quieren sabotear su trabajo…, y es que no a todo el mundo le gusta ver a una mujer en el puesto que ella ocupa.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: San Val (May 2006)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 141782414X
• ISBN-13: 978-1417824144
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• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable!, May 14, 2000

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Clare Hoey (Portadown, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Post Motem (Paperback)

Body of Evidence is the first of many Scarpetta tales of gruesome crime, murder and investigation.

If you like a book that can make the hair stand on the back of your neck, give you goose-bumps, make you cringe and totally put you off that cup of coffee, read this! Absolutely compulsive reading. The best book I have read in a long time. And it just gets better with each consecutive novel!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but too many unneccessary details in some places, February 16, 2006

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Dee (SEA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Post Mortem (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

While I admit this was a good book and an interesting start for a series, the story was weighed down by unneccessary details. I also would have liked some of the characters to play a bigger role in the story. Like what was the point, rather, of involving Wingo in scenes which did nothing for the story? They were nothing interesting, rather mundane; they should have been edited out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Story About a Psychopathic Killer, August 7, 2004

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Acute Observer (N. Jersey Shore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Post Motem (Paperback)

Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell

This won an award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best first novel. It was based on a true crime in the Richmond Virginia area. A psychopath kills young women who live alone, striking in the early hours of Saturday. There seems to be no other pattern to the murders. The victims are tortured before they are strangled. There are few clues and no fingerprints. One victim is married, but lived alone as her husband lived away Monday to Friday; the husband becomes the chief suspect, as usual.

This story is told from the viewpoint of Kay Scarpetta ME, a single woman who has a high position in a man's world. Kay is resented by some. There is a sub-plot about a state Attorney-General who is a secret rapist. [What did she know and when did she know it?] There are many pages of details about the Medical Examiner's office. The author previously worked for that office, and as a police reporter. [My opinion is that the many details and characterizations slow the pace of action.] Kay's niece Lucy is shown as being a neglected and emotionally abused child; how will she turn out? Cornwell shows her knowledge of personal computers and software.

Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was a best seller, although it violated the conventions of mystery fiction. This book also does that, but it seems more based on reality that way. Will Cornwell's future novels do as well? Does her political outlook find favor with her audience?