Unnatural Exposure

When a torso is found at a landfill with postures on her body that look like a pox type illness and then a woman on tangier island has the same illness, Dr. Scarpetta tries to discover the person who has developed this pox. How Dr. Scarpetta, Marino, Benton Wesley, Lucy and Janet put the clues together to find the answer makes for a page turning read. Highly recommend this book and the series.

Another great mystery for the doctor. I\’m glad she finally got over Mark and realized Benton was the one! Her stories are full of things most of us would never know.

I haven\’t read any Patricia Cornwell books in quite a while. This one was on sale and I hadn\’t read it. Maybe I\’m no longer into her style or maybe this is not one of the best Scarpetta books. But the story seemed to drag. Besides the sale price, what attracted me was the viral danger that she and others were in. That\’s a terrific premise for a suspense writer whose main character is a forensic doctor. But somehow, it never got as tense as I expected. Too technical and too drawn out, it ended with a solution that seemed pulled out of a hat. Not like the Cornwell Kay Scarpetta books I remember.

This is the first Cornwell novel I have read. Very well executed and a very quick read. Obviously this being book 8 of the series there were references to characters and situations I didn\’t fully comprehend but it was still self contained enough to enjoy. I definitely read her more.

The book begins with a dead body found in a landfill who has particular spots that look like smallpox. People died. But Kay , in the end found that a college and friend had produced this pox but it did not continue to pass as this college had hoped and Scarpetta found this person and solved the situation.

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