Body Bags

by Christopher Golden

Book Overview

When one of her professors ends up dead, college freshman Jenna Blake starts making discoveries even the police have not seen, discoveries that link the late teacher to a dead congressional aide and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671034928
• ISBN13: 9780671034924
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Good Review

This book was very well written and captured my attention as soon as i read the first page. It may be a little disturbing in parts but it is all together very interesting if you like mystery and suspense. I reccomend this to anyone with a semi-strong stomach though. Once you read you'll find out why. Overall I have come to the conclusion that Christopher Golden is a brilliant writer and writes amazing books.

Insect larave!

Although this is the first book of A BODY OF EVIDENCE, it was well-written and full of suspense. This story tells of a girl, Jenna Blake, who starts her freshman year at Somerset University. She got a job at Somerset Medical Centre as a pathology assistent. She assist at an autopsy where a man died with his brian full of insect larave. She felt even more curious, scared and upset when her professor died of the same cause. The mystery starts here. Jenna was determined to solve the mystery. She was stalked by a mysterious man and was almost killed. When the mysterious man failed to kil Jenna in his first attempt, he made two more attempts on Jenna's life. Who was this man? What does he want with Jenna? I were hooked on this book when I started reading it. I am like Jenna who was racing against time to find out the murder before someone else gets hurt. Can she make it?

Great book!

When I saw this book on the shelf @ my fav booksore, I knew that I just had to read it. I love horror stories, especially when they have a medical component. Christopher Golden is wonderful at catching each character at it's best- or it's worst, which makes them very real and believeable and is the essence of a good horror story, or any story for that matter. Jenna has struggles with liveing up to her mother's expectations, trying to make decisions about her career and her life, while still trying to fit in and have fun. And she is adventurous enough to decide that she is going to figure out what's going on. This is a great book!

A book any horror fan MUST read

"Body Bags" introduces us to Jenna Blake, college freshman, EveryWoman, trying to find out what she wants to do with her education and her career - and who she is. Packed with horror and intrigue, the reader is caught up in Jenna's life, her heartbeat and the reader's matching in rhythm at each suspenseful turn.The BODY of EVIDENCE series by Christopher Golden is a must-read. Body Bags first, then Thief of Hearts, and then the future BoE books in the works. You can't go wrong with Christopher's works, and "Body Bags" is an excellent example of that. Read. This. Book. Now.Then read "Thief of Hearts", etc.

Refreshing and original...

This book is much like many others Christopher Golden has written, including the Shadow Saga: refreshing and original in its own right. When I first saw this book, I had my doubts about it, but once i read past the first chapter, I knew I'd be looking out for the rest of the series.I personally enjoyed the well-conceived plot, as well as the realistic characters. Many young adult books these days seem more suited for preteens, for example, the Sabrina the Teenage Witch series, Fear Street (in a slight sense), Sweet Valley High, and numerous others, but an actual teen, or young adult, would really enjoy this book. For one, the main character, Jenna Blake is a freshman in college (for most "young adult" books, the main character(s) is/are in high school), and that gives it a plus. Then there's the not-so-perfect family that Jenna Blake has, giving it a realistic touch, along with the slight friction between her parents. Of course there's also the hesitation Jenna feels at going away to college, and the obligation she feels that she has to fulfill her mother's hopes for her to become a doctor. Jenna Blake is not your average high school/college bimbo whose life is perfect, but instead a teen who could exist easily in the real world, and whom I certainly identify with.Golden has brought yet another great novel into the literary world, and I sure hope he will bring in more of his own original pieces, not just books based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or X-Men or whatever.