- Paperback: 370 pages
- Publisher: Sphere; New edition edition (18 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751530506
- ISBN-13: 978-0751530506
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 3 x 18.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 119,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Vividly compulsive' Mail On Sunday 'Ingenious, persuasive and unsettling' Literary Review 'A one-sitting read' Cosmopolitan
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'Ingenious, persuasive and unsettling'
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Great Read,
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This review is from: Cause of Death: Vintage Scarpetta (Paperback)
Kay is called to a murder of a reporter, Ted Eddings on New Year's Eve. The body is found underwater, which gives the reader Kay's first underwater crime scene. This cases pulls together Lucy, Pete and Benton as further murders follow. The story weaves in the usual dectective work with the high tec world of Lucy. As with all Scarpetta novels, the lives of the characters have significantly moved on since the last novel, you are only given snipbits of information at a time to try and piece together what has happened in the intervening time period. Another great novel. The relationship between the key characters just gets better and better and there is a part of me that is routing for Marino and Kay to get it toegther - who knows....??
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best,
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This review is from: Cause of Death: Vintage Scarpetta (Paperback)
'Cause of Death' is the seventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series from Patricia Cornwell and begins when a reporter is found dead in the icy waters of the Elizabeth River in Virginia. This then leads Scarpetta, Marino, Wesley and Lucy into the world of terrorism when the death is found to be related to an investigation into the terrorist group The New Zionists.
I've been reading through the Scarpetta novels in order for about a year now and this was the first one that didn't really grip me at all and in places I was even a little bored. The Kay/Benton relationship is also getting a little tiresome as well as Kay's over-protective relationship and over-exageratted problems with her neice Lucy. The actual murder investigation is ok, if a little unbeliveable. I did find it interesting how forensics were becoming more advanced at the time that the book was written, as some of the procedures and equipment used are things that are fairly basic in this day and age and really made me think how things have rapidly progressed over the past 10 years. Overall it is a fairly entertaining read for the most part that unfortunately does get a little boring at points, but is one that regulars to the series should read to keep up to date with the flow of the series. If you're new to the Cornwell books, I'd definitely start at the beginning (Postmortem) as the first six books are much better thank this.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A book of two halves,
By Mark M (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cause of Death: Vintage Scarpetta (Paperback)
The first half of the book was quite good - Scarpetta was doing her job etc etc (although the reference to Lucy listening to Melissa Etheridge was a bit hamfisted). However, the second half of the book was ridiculous! Dr Scarpetta goes from being the literary equivalent of Quincy to become some kind of undercover CIA operative! I mean, I don't expect my fiction to be believable, but I don't expect it to be this unbelievable!
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