Blow Fly (novel)
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| Author | Patricia Cornwell |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Kay Scarpetta Mysteries |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
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2003 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
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| OCLC | 52891481 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.O692 B576 2003 |
| Preceded by | The Last Precinct |
| Followed by | Trace |
Blow Fly is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell.
Blow Fly is the twelfth book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series by author Patricia Cornwell.
After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying events which threatened her life in The Last Precinct, Kay Scarpetta has abandoned her elegant home in Richmond, Virginia, and is quietly living in Florida, beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself as a private forensic consultant. (Her first class involves the blow fly, which sometimes lays eggs on corpses.) But her past will not let her rest, and her grief for Benton Wesley continues to grow, not diminish, as does the rage within Lucy, her niece. Then the architect of her changed fortunes contacts her from his cell on death row: deformed, blinded by Scarpetta's own actions, incarcerated in Texas' strongest prison, Jean-Baptiste Chandonne still has the ability to terrify. But, unknown to Scarpetta, there are other forces behind the wolfman's apparent actions, invisibly shepherding her and those closest to her towards eliminating those who threaten them all. It is all orchestrated by the one man in her life who knows every nuance of her soul. In Szczecin, Poland, Lucy and a colleague apparently commit a premeditated murder, using blow-fly larvae to alter the perceived time of death. The novel then ends with the killing of four further people by Scarpetta's associates.
Some reviewers considered this to be a "highly suspenseful read in which surprises explode and the characters move to another level of believability." One finds that the book,"while not for the squeamish... is a tremendous read." Others, however, as also noted in reviews for later books in the series, such as Trace, considered it to be disappointing. Gail Pennington of the St Louis Post Dispatch states that "even the most ardent Cornwell fans may reluctantly realize that enthusiasm for the Scarpetta series is mainly a relic of books past."
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