Blow Fly (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Cornwell
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New York City, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Rocco Caggiano, Lucy Farinelli, Rudy Musil, Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, Jay Talley, Bev Kiffin, Nic Robillard, Sam Lanier, Wesley Benton
- Subjects: New York, Murder or homicide, Police, Europe or Europeans, Twenty-first century, Women, Detectives, Florida, Kidnapping, Organized crime, Bereavement or grief, Texas, Career women, Louisiana, Mass murderers or serial killers
Patricia Cornwell’s first Kay Scarpetta novel, Postmortem (1990), earned a sweep of major awards, and Cornwell provided her enormous readership with a new Scarpetta novel every year for the next ten years. In the eleventh book in the series, The Last Precinct (2000), Scarpetta grieves over the violent death of her lover, Wesley Benton, an FBI criminal profiler she had known for many years. Nothing seems to be going right in Scarpetta’s life. Professional and personal attacks against her escalate. Scarpetta spirals into depression and considers leaving her job. With the...
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