Port Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel)

A young man's mysterious death becomes even stranger after full-body scans reveal destruction so extensive it's as if a bomb went off inside his body. From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Cornwell's compelling 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves the chief medical examiner in a case that's both far-reaching in its national security implications and deeply personal. Scarpetta and husband Benton Wesley-along with her niece, Lucy Farinelli, and ex-cop turned CFC investigator Pete Marino-discover links not only to a government project with the ability to cause mass casualties but also to another grisly case currently under inv

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J's Girl said Cut the personal stuff!. I loved reading earlier Scarpetta books all the way back to her first one, and I faithfully read every new one that came out for a long time, right up to "Blowfly." Then I got hold of Kathy Reichs's books, "Fatal Voyage" being the first, I was hooked, and I began to analyze why I liked Reichs more than Scarpetta. "Port Mortuary" is my return to reading Scarpetta after four years and I discovered why I stayed away so long.I am pretty sick of her whining about Marino and Lucy and Benton. It really does get old so get on with the CASES, pl. "ANOTHER AWESOME "KAY SCARPETTA & CAST NOVE!"" according to Rebecca Stewart. This reader is a very loyal Patricia Cornwell fan! If you have not read every novel in the "Kay Scarpetta" Series, IN THE CORRECT ORDER, then you cannot fathom what mystery, murder, and mayhem are truly about! Dr. Scarpetta, a pathologist and Doctor of the dead, Crime Scene Investigator, along with her FBI Agent Profiler Spouse, Benton Wesley, Long-Time friend and Police Investigator, Pete Marino, and Lucy, a genius who is so technologically advanced that she began developing software programs and selling them for mega bucks, makeup a t. uggghhh! When will I ever learn! Every single Patricia Cornwell novel is an ode to herself. I am tired of reading how incredibly intelligent, astute, perceptive, beautiful, sensuous, sexy, and a great cook she thinks she is ( PC considers herself an amalgamation of Kay, Lucy, AND Benton!!!) My god! Kay Scarpetta is a medical examiner for Pete's sake. She's gotta smell like death. Her average day is 57 hours long -- that is how long it would take a human being to do all the tedious, yet supposedly intense things she does IN ONE DAY!!! And serious