From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-Jenna Blake, college coed and part-time student coroner, returns in her eighth book. This time she faces a very personal case when her father's future wife and several of her fellow students are struck by a paralyzing disease that is easily passed from person to person. The CDC, the police, and Jenna are all looking to find the answer. Because the suspect is revealed in the prologue, this book is much more a race against time than a mystery. The characters are well drawn and the disease is scary and gross. A chilling read for fans of medical thrillers.
-Amy Patrick, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Gr. 8-11. The latest Body of Evidence thriller, which stands quite well on its own, finds Jenna Blake, intrepid, well-intentioned college sophomore, once again poking her nose where it doesn't belong. This time trouble begins at festivities for her newly married dad, where guests, and the new bride, start dropping like flies after sampling the buffet. While Jenna's stepmother remains on the critical list, homicide detective Audrey Gaines, the local medical examiner (for whom Jenna works part-time), and Jenna herself pursue a variety of clues before finding the culprit. Although Jenna does confront a problem with her college roommate and has an occasional insecure moment, she relates mostly to adults; their problems are the stuff of this story. She is also a good deal more sophisticated than the college-age incarnation of her literary progenitor, Nancy Drew (she even uses a few swear words and kisses a much older man). That said, this is a relatively tame segue into the more highly charged and explicit adult mystery genre.
Stephanie ZvirinCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
