Title: WTF is Patricia Cornwell doing? This deserves 0 stars!
Product review: After Blow Fly, which was just awful from start to finish, I hoped for better things with Trace. Sadly, I was disappointed. I don't like the third person writing style, and short sentences really only work in the hands of a good writer. I was a HUGE fan of her earlier books: Body of Evidence, Postmortem, All That Remains, and I even liked The Body Farm. However, things slid rapidly downhill from there. Patricia, go back and read the books I just mentioned. Notice how much better your writing was then? Notice how you actually TOLD A STORY that had me unable to put these books down? With action and exposition that MOVED the PLOT ALONG???????OK, now go write a Scarpetta novel, in the first person, like that. That good, or better. Concentrate on Kay! Not Lucy, not Marino, not Benton. Or, make Benton more interesting and kill off Lucy, who has really become tiresome.
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