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Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta) (Paperback)

by Patricia Cornwell (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Open market ed edition (Aug 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0425158616
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425158616
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 344,961 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Vividly compulsive' Mail On Sunday 'Ingenious, persuasive and unsettling' Literary Review 'A one-sitting read' Cosmopolitan --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, 19 Nov 2007
By KM (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cause of Death (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.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Read, 3 May 2004
This review is from: Cause of Death (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....??
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Cause of Death, 21 Jan 2005
By Rich Milligan (Thatcham, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
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After rattling through this, the seventh, instalment in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, I had the blinding revelation that I'd done all this before.

Although the book is just as solidly written and accurate as all the others, it is basically the same plot with slightly different scenery. Here you have Scarpetta on the trail of the perpetrator of the latest big news murders. Here you have Scarpetta verbally fencing with Marino in their own special brand of love/hate relationship. Here you have Scarpetta fretting and concerned about both her professional and personal relationship with FBI profiler Benton Wesley. Here you have Scarpetta playing both mother hen and fighting with niece Lucy as she struggles with her sexuality and her own professional life.
And to top it all, the book ends with Scarpetta saving the day as once again this medical examiner gets herself into the most unlikely of SWAT team action situations.

As I say, don't get me wrong, the book is good. It ticks along nicely, the evidence and clues are intriguing and educational and as ever the supporting characters are great, Marino especially. I'm just happy to say that the next book is set in Ireland and I'm hoping for something with slightly different angles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars cause of death
very good book i recomend it to anybody well wrote book thinks of all the twists
Published 8 days ago by Ms. Tracy Phillips

3.0 out of 5 stars Deja Vu.....
First of all if this is the first Scarpetta book you are considering I strongly suggest you start from the first book 'Post Mortem' as I feel you need to start right back at the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ali D

5.0 out of 5 stars used items
Despite the fact that I purchased a used book you would never have known. It was in perfect condition and did not look like it had been used at all
Published 4 months ago by S. Emery

2.0 out of 5 stars Going downhill?
This is the 7th in Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series and is the 7th I have read this year (I've been reading 1 a month since May. Read more
Published 7 months ago by molko

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, and yet !!!
As always Ms. Cornwell has produced a brilliant piece of writing - solid stuff. No one could ever fault the way she researches, nor the way she portrays her characters... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Anthony, James Barnett

3.0 out of 5 stars A book of two halves
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). Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mark M

4.0 out of 5 stars A clever story but a low point of the Scarpetta series
The intricate, somewhat paranoid, detective element of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels is all but absent in this excursion into the mind of a pathologist. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2003 by lexi_wades

2.0 out of 5 stars Stretching credibility
This was the 4th or 5th Scarpetta novel I'd read. In a number of others it was difficult to believe how she managed to be so closely involved in so many parts of the cases. Read more
Published on 15 May 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A thoroughly engrossing read even for first-time readers
This was the first Patricia Cornwell book that I read and now I have read nearly all her other books! Really good reading for any crime fiction fan.
Published on 18 May 2000

2.0 out of 5 stars Another Kay Scarpetta mystery is solved albeit slowly
I was rather disappointed with this slow moving story. The plot is barely credible and ends rather abruptly leaving the reader with many unanswered questions. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 1998

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