Blow Fly
Kay Scarpetta • Book 12
Narrated by Kate Reading
Why You'll Love This
The gap between this book's Goodreads and Audible scores tells you everything: Cornwell's prose lands harder when someone else is doing the reading.
- Great if you want: dark forensic procedurals with a protagonist genuinely falling apart
- Listening experience: deliberate and brooding — rewards patience, not binge-listening
- Narration: Reading's composed authority mirrors Scarpetta's cracking composure perfectly
- Skip if: you're not current on the series — this drops you mid-arc
About This Book
Blow Fly finds Scarpetta rebuilding her life in Florida as a private forensic consultant after her departure from Richmond, where she has been drawn into a disturbing Louisiana case involving unexplained deaths. When Jean-Baptiste Chandonne, the serial killer who pursued her to her home in an earlier novel, requests a prison meeting exclusively with her, the renewed contact suggests his game has entered a new phase.
Kate Reading narrates with the controlled professional distance that Scarpetta's character requires, a voice that carries forensic authority as its default register. The novel's expansion into parallel storylines, with multiple points of view running against the main investigation, is managed by Reading with consistent clarity about whose perspective is active at any moment.
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