The Body Farm (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Cornwell
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Mystery novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: North Carolina and Virginia
- Principal Characters: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Lucy, Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, Carrie Grethen, Denesa Steiner
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Murder or homicide, Science or scientists, Lesbianism or lesbians, Detectives, Mysteries, Kidnapping
- Locales: Virginia, North Carolina
The Body Farm is Patricia Cornwell’s fifth crime novel since her auspicious 1990 debut with Postmortem, which won the top genre awards in three countries. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, forensic pathologist and lawyer, returns as the featured player in this book, and some venues and devices also are familiar, but Cornwell is not a formula writer and once again challenges the limitations of the genre. Though the book’s setting links it to the police procedural and its rough-and-tumble realism echoes hard-boiled crime fiction, it transcends both types. At its core, The Body...
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