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I have always heard of Patricia Cornwell but I was never compelled to try one of her books until now.
Postmortem is the first book in her long and famous Kay Scarpetta series. It was just all right for me. I enjoyed it overall, but I found it a little slow paced for my liking. Being written in 1990, it was also quite dated, in the sense that it talks about technologies and procedures which were new at the time but not now. Of course this is not the book fault, I was just a little bored by these ...more
Postmortem is the first book in her long and famous Kay Scarpetta series. It was just all right for me. I enjoyed it overall, but I found it a little slow paced for my liking. Being written in 1990, it was also quite dated, in the sense that it talks about technologies and procedures which were new at the time but not now. Of course this is not the book fault, I was just a little bored by these ...more

Leggere la Patricia Cornwell degli albori è ormai quasi leggere un romanzo storico.
Computer e tecnologia sono pressoché irriconoscibili, tanto che le spiegazioni sul funzionamento non mi sono parse superflue, ma mi hanno genuinamente interessato. Senza contare che, nonostante l'autrice sia conosciuta un po' come una che scrive 'spiegoni', in questo volume ho trovato molto equilibrata la loro proporzione con la trama in sé.
Il ritmo è serrato e la soluzione nemmeno tanto scontata. I personaggi son ...more
Computer e tecnologia sono pressoché irriconoscibili, tanto che le spiegazioni sul funzionamento non mi sono parse superflue, ma mi hanno genuinamente interessato. Senza contare che, nonostante l'autrice sia conosciuta un po' come una che scrive 'spiegoni', in questo volume ho trovato molto equilibrata la loro proporzione con la trama in sé.
Il ritmo è serrato e la soluzione nemmeno tanto scontata. I personaggi son ...more

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