Blow Fly
- 504
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Blow Fly” is a Scarpetta novel for committed readers of the series, answering questions left open in previous books. Cornwell tells this one in a new way, and some readers find that the change keeps the investigation gripping. As the twelfth volume, it leans so heavily on what came before that it is no place to start, and even regulars may want to refresh their memory first. It runs to over five hundred pages.
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About the book
Blow Fly is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell, the twelfth book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series.
Reading order · Kay Scarpetta
Full order & progress →- PostmortemStart here
7.57.5 / 10 - Body of Evidence
7.67.6 / 10 - All That Remains
7.67.6 / 10 - The Body Farm
7.77.7 / 10 - From Potter's Field
7.77.7 / 10 - Cause of Death
7.67.6 / 10 - Unnatural Exposure
7.67.6 / 10 - Point of Origin
7.77.7 / 10 - Black Notice
–Not ranked yet - The Last Precinct
–Not ranked yet - Blow FlyThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - Trace
–Not ranked yet - Predator
–Not ranked yet - Book of the Dead
–Not ranked yet - Scarpetta
–Not ranked yet - The Scarpetta Factor
–Not ranked yet - Port Mortuary
–Not ranked yet - Red Mist
–Not ranked yet - The Bone Bed
–Not ranked yet - Dust
–Not ranked yet - Flesh and blood
–Not ranked yet - Depraved Heart
–Not ranked yet - Chaos
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 57 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 6 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.0 | 51 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Blow Fly?
It has 504 pages — longer than 86% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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