Reviews with content warning for Murder - Post-Mortem

At some point I realized that Scarpetta would have a face-to-face meeting with the killer, I just couldn't guess how it would go down. Frankly, this feels like a cop-out to me. I don't like it when I read police investigation fiction and the case is solved because the main character has an encounter with the criminal, where the criminal chooses the MC to be the next victim. But during the encounter, I definitely got a bit scared and my heart was beating a lot, I had to turn all the lights on in the house because I was terrified, lol. I suppose that was an accomplishment for the book.

Again, too much police work and not enough forensic pathology. I bought this book because I knew Scarpetta was a forensic pathologist and I was hoping to read lots about pathology methods. I guess I should have expected this though, a police investigation through the eyes of the pathologist. Otherwise, I don't have many complaints. Definitely an entertaining read.

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laurabythebook's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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herecomes_anne's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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booking_along's review against another edition

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adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

the first in the long Kay Scarpetta series ist not just a wonderful introduction to the characters but in itself a fantastically done thriller.

sure some of the language chooches are a bit questionable as to why it’s necessary to word it as it was …. but jerks been over 30 years since this has been written and language does evolve and change so what’s normal now want back than and the other way around. so i can overlook that for the most part.

but the crime itself was great.

how the thriller parts were bild up and solved? wonderfully done!

this is not one of those crime books where r reader can actually solve the case before the big reveal but one that makes the reader question every single character around the main one and if they could be the bad guy.
that’s n it as easily done as it might sound to some, so that was great.

i love the relationship between kay and her niece.
it’s refreshing to see a woman in her 40 being happy with her choices and happy to have a niece she can dote but in no ways miss birthing children .
instead being happy about having made her choices as she did and focusing on her career!
sadly it is rare to see that even now in books were women are accepted without questioning their either their worth or their choices after a specific age is reached and without them having children.
so it was especially nice to see that in a book published in 1990.

all in all this was a very well done and throughout thriller with a good amount of medical info sprinkled in and a very well written crime aspect.

but it’s not for the faint hearted crime lovers. this does get pretty graphic, deals with mentions and talks of rape and murder heavily and also has a good amount of talk that shows that too many men see women as less worthy than they are and quite a few victim blaming moments. so be prepared if you are sensitive to that.

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sophieamreacher's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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art_books_chemistry's review against another edition

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dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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