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Blow Fly | 
| Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0751530743
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780751530742
ASIN: 0751530743
Publication Date: June 3, 2004
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 Really criminal! May 4, 2008
The first half dozen Scarpetta books are really good (and worth listening to on audio, too). However, this effort takes the biscuit. The change to present tense is a mistake - it has to be done well to be readable. In Blow Fly, it's irritating to say the least. Lucy the Wonder Kid is equally irritating. She was a pain in Postmortem but at least she was only eleven and had to go to bed early. Wesley's unlikely rise from the dead did take slightly longer than three days, I suppose. Scarpetta seems to age only a year for every four or five of her niece's but she should be going on sixty now. Cornwell has been running out of steam in the last few novels and this effort offers nothing to make me want to read any more. I have reread the first two in the series, though, and they are still excellent (though dated by the detailed discussions of somewhat early computer technology which, of course, only Lucy can really understand). At least they have coherent and well-developed plots and characters rather more believable than Lucy, Wesley and Scarpetta have become.
 Brilliant April 4, 2008
I've never read any of Patricia Cornwell's books before, so came to this with an open mind and no expectations, and I loved it. Lots of negative reviews here mentioning how people didn't like the 3rd person narrative and saying it jumped about too much between different sub-plots/people. This is partly what I liked about it, particularly all the diverse locations and 'international' aspect of it. It was an account of several disparate individuals and their lonely journey through their broken lives, rather than just being about murder.
I agree that some of it stretched credibility, but then again, so what? To me the only important things are how entertaining it is and whether it casts any meaningful reflections on life/the human soul, and I feel it does both these things.
I also don't agree that newcomers will necessarily be confused. I don't recall being confused at any point, though no doubt when I get around to reading 'Black Notice' and 'The Last Precinct' some interesting stuff will come to light. I'd like to read some of the early novels too.
 what was with the ending!!!! March 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I actually pretty much enjoyed this right until the last moment, I felt cheated, I wobt say to much because I dont want to spoil it for anyone who is yet to readit, if you follow the scarpetta books then obviously no matter what anyone says you will read this because yuo will want to follow the story but just be ready to feel very dissapointed at the end
A Cornwell by name, but not as we know it October 15, 2007
As a standard thriller goes this was ok. There was certainly enough suspense and intrigue to keep me regularly turning the pages. As a Patricia Cornwell however, this book falls far short of my expectations. The style and flow of the writing was disjointed and quite frankly lazy by comparison to her earlier work. There was no real depth to the story and it just wasn't very fresh - old themes and characters reintroduced in an often lurching and confusing manner.
It was as though PC needed to throw something together and put in the barest of efforts to do so. When I finished this (after an extraordinarily fast conclusion - blink and you'd miss it) I was left feeling rather cheated.
Rambling, dreadful tale of murder September 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have read and enjoyed a few books from the Scaparta series, but this one really took the biscuit! It was so incoherrent for the first few chapters, that I thought I had missed a few pages. I just could not follow the thread at all.
The main character, Kay Scaparta was unlikable in this series, the narrative was awful and the plot line ridiculous. Deeply disappointing. I have to admit, I gave up in the end, it was so dull!
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