Angela T. (victorianvalkyrie) reviewed on 10/13/2010

Postmortem is a book that's made to plague your mind with vivid detail about bondage and what plagues the minds of people that have to deal with it--not only in being raped and/or bound but in those that have to find the person who forcibly did it. For a starter novel it's very well done though there are some points that had me stopping to reread a few times. Like any book there are mistakes but some of them are in spots that not only should the author have found but the editor as well. As for character basics Cornwell did a good enough job with slipping in details about Scarpetta's past but the other characters have a few problems. Mainly Bolts. She speaks about him in a way that we should know all of this as she does but doesn't explain things in between. He makes drastic character changes--which is difficult to follow since in the beginning of the book, toward the middle, he's constantly important to Scarpetta but then suddenly he leaves and is barely mentioned again until the end of the book which isn't very logical since he was a suspect.

All in all I do enjoy the book, I sat down one morning with some tea and nothing to do. That night I found myself closing the book with mild satisfaction. She did a well enough job that it is a page turner but I believe it would be even better if it was polished up a bit more.

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