Port Mortuary
By Patricia Cornwell
- Release Date: 2010-11-30
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
Scarpetta, an all-new Original Series, is out now on Prime Video!
Enter the chilling and captivating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta before Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis bring the mystery to life onscreen.
“The new audience will be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries that are the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling… and a warning……there WILL be BLOOD.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than twenty years into her career, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally—and personally . . .
Kay Scarpetta’s secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary, where she’s performing autopsies on fallen soldiers. But her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the Cambridge Forensic Center—is the first civilian facility in the U.S. to do virtual autopsies, and it is there that she encounters a devastating event.
A young man has died, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta’s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the Center’s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen—details that suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. With Benton, Marino, and Lucy at her side, Scarpetta must fight a cunning, cruel—and invisible—enemy in a race against time. . . .
Reviews
Good mystery!
4By Fanita67Confusing at first but captivating at the end!Not what I come to expect from Ms Cromwell
3By doctingeyNot the suspense filled novel that I have enjoyed in other Scarpetta series novels. Though the book was excellent, it did lack the action that I kept waiting for. Just a slight letdown.Port Mortuary
5By lkowen13Good read!Port Mortuary
3By Really? Same again?Why do I keep reading the Scarpetta books? I don't really know, maybe boredom. Same, same, same...predictably Scarpetta stories start in ice and snow, Kay stressed out, but nevertheless heroic. Lucy excessive and with borderline criminal actions saves the day, Marino, capable and smart, still needs Kay's protection against all odds, Benton, the strong, silent type is beyond human failure, however never quite correct in his assessments, only Kay, who always cooks, but never eats or sleeps, super humanly recognizes the villain and his/her motives who without fail attacks heroic Kay in the last 2 chapters and can not win the confrontation, either dies or gets then arrested. No real plot, no build up to the plot. All seems flat, unemotional, tepid, predictable.Cornwell needs to refocus
1By CorbankThis book was terrible. I have read all the Scarpetta novels and have always enjoyed them to the point of losing sleep. This book took me 3 months to read. Scarpetta is dark and whiny in this book. Nothing like the confident Scarpetta of old. She needs to get over Marino and Benton drama because it's not a viable story line anymore. I won't spend money on the next book. This was an awful read.Port Mortuary
1By Emerald 32I have had it with Cornwell. She is so full of herself, and Scarpetta likewise. The plot is so disjointed and wordy, that it is very difficult to read, let alone understand. Scarpetta thinks she is Superwoman. Everybody is against her, and she knows better than anyone else. If I had purchased this book, I would be extremely disappointed !Port mortuary
4By Texasgal7Good reading but if Marino irritates Scarpetta why doesn't"t she handle him??? and her insecurities are getting to me!!! Yet I found the book hard to put down.Page-turner
5By MugmamaLots of non-medical technical jargon in this one but I really enjoyed all the insight into why Dr. Scarpetta is so driven and yet so insecure. Interestingly designed with several different story avenues which all come together very neatly at the end. Good set-up for the next one too. Thanks Ms. Cornwell; you didn't let me down.Port Mortuary
5By RottnkidsOne of the better books written by P.C. That she manages to write without graphic sex and "F'!?*' every other word is refreshing.Slow but...
3By SJStephThis story didn't take off quickly; however, it does leave you with questions at the end that make you want to continue the Scarpetta series. I enjoy reading how the characters' lives evolve. I'm a true fan and look forward to the next book.Great book
5By La0914I have read all of the Scarpetta books and this is the kind of book that made me love Patricia Cornwell! I never liked that she was becoming a celebrity, and glad she is back to basics! I feel Benton is not the same as he used to be, very boring now!Disappointed!
2By RheumorNot one of her better books.Very boring
1By Winderful1Don't waste your time I couldn't even get myself up finish this book . I have loved her other novels . This one had me falling asleep.Port Mortuary
5By DauntlesstIt's been awhile since I've read a Scarpetta book. The woman is still smart, driven, righting wrongs, taking unpopular positions in a case, and teaching the reader to pay attention to details even when not among the majority. Cornwell has chosen to smooth a few edges of Scarpetta, Marino, Lucy, and Benson without sacrificing any of the intensity of their differences and passions. Great plot with modern science intrigue.Port Mortuary
1By cwall886BOOORING! what a disappointment. Just, endless descriptions of colleagues that are completely unncessary……Don't waste your monery or your timePort Mortuary
1By FawzIaKExtremely convulated read. Disconnected and unlike Cornwell's previous books. Having read ALL of her books, this one convinced me to stop before I get more disappointed. Patricia, you have lost your touch!Great book!!!!!
5By CrysgibsFirst book I have read by this author. Love that character of Kay. Look forward to reading other books by this author. Great read. Highly recommended.Enough whining!
2By rhondajayneI made it through Port Mortuary but not without considerable effort. I found this to be similar to trudging through a heavy snowdrift. I've enjoyed her novels before but this had endless paragraphs with no dialogue where Kay worried endlessly, seemed to have lost all confidence and was continually questioning others loyalty to her. Most of the book took place in the paranoid confines of her own mind. I found myself missing the other characters.Awful
1By Dwight Kurt SchruteI've been reading Scarpetta for 20 years and always found the forensic science, the detailed autopsy, the crime scene investigation to be the meat of the story. There was a bad guy who had committed a crime and he needed to be caught. Now, this is all just a mess, and an incompetent one at that. I mean, seriously, how many attempts on her life and narrow escapes can one person experience every 6 months and still be a functioning human being. We've jumped the shark folks. When did the medical examiner become the ultimate fixation of every single notorious criminal on the eastern seaboard. What a waste of time and money. I hate to realize I am condemning Cornwell to the trash heap, like that mysterious torso they came across in the dump in one of the good books oh so many years ago.
