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Body of Evidence
- Kay Scarpetta, Book 2
- Narrated by: Lindsay Crouse
- Series: Scarpetta (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West, but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in.
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Critic Reviews
"A great writer...read these books only in broad daylight." (Daily Mail)
"Cornwell is the one to beat when it comes to slick, speedy chillers." (Sunday Telegraph)
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- Deb
- 03-04-2016
Another great story
Another great story, we are really enjoying these stories in the car on our travels
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-10-2020
Dreadful narration - great story
Another fantastic story from Patricia Cornwall, but the narration made it very difficult to listen to. No tonality and a voice that sounded like I was being shouted at the whole way through, it has to be the worst audible I’ve listened to. And throw in the random bits of music shoved in all over the place, it really was a shocker.
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- Silver Fox
- 02-04-2019
Good read but
doesn't match up to book 1 for tension and story . Didn't build the Scarpetta character as much as I anticipated it might.
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- Lou
- 13-10-2018
Gripping drama
I'm a big fan of this series of books. Always twists and turns and Dr.Scarpetta seems to get right in the middle. Really enjoyed it.
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- Soozij
- 18-07-2018
ideal narrator for a great character and plot
seen Lindsay in dramas since actually reading - visually and audibly she's how I imagined Kay
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