Sarah's Library

31/3 - Another great Scarpetta story.  I haven't read this one as often as Postmortem, so I don't remember the complete story like I do with Postmortem.  As I'm reading a new detail of the plot will come to me just a page or two before I read it.  Instead of anticipating each twist and turn of the plot, I'm almost surprised by them.  Re-reading the books as an adult, I do find it a bit unlikely that one Chief Medical Examiner could get into as many scrapes as Scarpetta does.  Fortuantely I'm quite good at suspending disbelief inspite of illogical situations, and so I can jut ignore the sense of disbelief that rings at the back of my mind while I'm reading of the latest attempt on her life.  To be continued...

2/4 - As with Postmortem, Body of Evidence ends with a the bad guy making a concerted, but ultimately failed attempt on Scarpetta's life.  This time, at least, Marino isn't the one to come barging in gun blazing, her own gun does the blazing and she's able to save herself.  I still love these books and the character of Kay Scarpetta, but at the same time I can see where some of the complaints of clichedness come from, now.  When I read them as a young teenager I just read them as a great, slightly violent (for a 13-year-old) crime thriller (some of my first real, adult books).  Now, with older, more cynical and informed eyes I can't quite read them as subtext and message free - I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.