The Body Farm | Social Concerns
Patricia Cornwell's fifth novel sends Scarpetta, Marino, and Wesley to a new setting, rural North Carolina near Asheville, a locale close to Montreal, where Cornwell grew up. Black Mountain (a real place) seems frozen in time: rural, quaint, friendly, seemingly immune from the wretched crimes Scarpetta has witnessed in the more urbanized center of Virginia. Yet the town is not immune; the unusual wounds on the body of a murdered eleven-year-old-girl recall those on the body of a Richmond youth whose killer, Temple Gault, eluded capture at the end of the previous novel Cruel and...
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