Title: The author can do much better - and has
Product review: Patricia Cornwell is usually an excellent storyteller, and her characters and plots are well-crafted. The main characters in this novel have appeared in earlier books as somewhat quirky but fundamentally intelligent and capable professionals. By setting them down in the farcial situation she creates in "Isle of Dogs," Cornwell gives them no choice but to become farcial themselves, their intelligence diminished and their training of no use. By allowing her characters to lose their earlier identifies, they become mere puppets in a bad play. If you've never read Patricia Cornwell, don't buy this book; if this is only Cornwell you've read, don't judge her by this dismal effort.
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