Title: Total failure on every level
Product review: As with Hornet's Nest, I bought this book without thinking to check whether or not it was a Scarpetta novel. Fool me twice, shame on me! The book fails on every possible level. It is not a good mystery, it is not a good police procedural, it is filled with woefully lame humor and, again as with Hornet's Nest, the anthropomorphism of various dogs and cats left me filled with despair at having once again counted, mistakenly, on the professional level of writing I had grown to expect from Cornwell's intelligent Scarpetta novels. These two non-Scarpetta books seem to be written by a different writer -- one who is less skillful on every level from plotline to character development. I will never again automatically buy one of this previously well-liked author's works.
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