Title: Just when you think the story's going somewhere...
Product review: ...the book ends. That's my main objection to Trace. Cornwell sets up multiple plot threads to wind together at the end of the book, but despite all the obvious foreshadowing, it's not clear that many of them actually DO come together, except in a very contrived way.However, the forensics stuff and some character development can be interesting. Marino, particularly, exposes more of himself (emotionally and otherwise). I kept hoping that all the interweaving plot threads would end up making sense plot-wise and character-wise at the end. Instead, the end just happens, quite abruptly, as if Cornwell's publisher were enforcing a page limit. The worst thing is that some plot points are introduced fairly late in the book only to be dropped entirely, and I'm not sure whether they were intended as red herrings or if readers were supposed to reach some kind of conclusion on their own. I'd have rated it 3 stars if the ending had been even remotely satisfying.
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