Kay Scarpetta book 5 · 1994
The Body Farm
An eleven-year-old girl is murdered in the mountains of North Carolina, and Kay Scarpetta joins the investigation, while her niece Lucy is in trouble at the FBI academy.
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Book facts
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- Series
- Kay Scarpetta, book 5 of 29
- Published
- 1994
- Setting
- Set in Richmond, Virginia
- Characters charted
- 8
- Chart confidence
- Medium
Who is in The Body Farm
8 recurring or key characters from Patricia Cornwell’s chart. Introduces Carrie Grethen.
Lead 1
- Kay ScarpettaChief medical examiner and forensic pathologist
Major 5
- Pete MarinoDetective, later Scarpetta’s investigator
- Benton WesleyFBI profiler and Scarpetta’s partner, later husband
- Lucy FarinelliScarpetta’s niece, a computer and weapons specialist
- Temple GaultSerial killer
- Carrie GrethenFirst appearanceFormer FBI computer specialist turned killer
Minor and cameo 2
- Dorothy FarinelliScarpetta’s sister, Lucy’s mother
- RoseScarpetta’s secretary
Also featuring these characters
Other Patricia Cornwell books that share the most characters with The Body Farm.
- Postmortem1990 · Kay Scarpetta · 6 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Point of Origin1998 · Kay Scarpetta · 6 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Chaos2016 · Kay Scarpetta · 6 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- All That Remains1992 · Kay Scarpetta · 5 shared charactersBuy on Amazon