Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell

I just finished Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell. This is another of her series of Kay Scarpetta books. Kay Scarpetta is a medical examiner who solves murders. In this one she has to solve a puzzler of a murder quickly under difficult circumstances.

She is at Dover Air Force Base to begin with doing autopsies on the bodies of soldiers killed over seas. She is like a reserve officer. She gets word from the Cambridge Forensic Center, her home office that she has been away from for months, that it appears that a murder victim may not have been dead when he was brought in. Oops, so she has to leave Dover and get back to Cambridge quickly to check out what was going on.

She gets there and finds out that all sorts of crap has been going on in her absence. Her assistant, Fielding, hasn’t been taking care of business. She ends up playing catch up on everything, meanwhile she has to figure out what is going on with the murder. And where in the heck is the assistant, how come the military is there nosing around.

This isn’t a linear detective novel. The process of solving the murder goes here, there, and everywhere, but it is very intriguing and compelling. I loved this book. It was a totally satisfying read.

I give it four stars out of five. I got my copy at the library!

6 thoughts on “Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell

  1. Sharon's Mum Anne

    I’ll have to give this a go. I found PC a little bit samey for a while but this sounds good.

    For Impulsive Addict may I recommend The Room by Emma Donnahughe – definitely a five star book. About a child born to a young woman snatched as a teenager and kept in a shed – the child, Jack, tells the story of his and his Ma’s life. Once you get into the story it makes total sense that Jack should tell the reader what life is like.

  2. SandyCarlson

    Sounds like one heck of a novel. Thanks for the review.

    I woke up this morning thinking I read only those books that have been recommended to me or the other books of authors whose books have been recommended to me. There’s so much out there, we need to know whom we can trust for helpful info.

    You have me wanting this one.

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