Title: Kay Scarpetta RIP
Product review: I loved the early Scarpetta books and was a real fan of Patricia Cornwell. I'm afraid to report that Trace continues to represent a downhill slide for this series. Where BlowFly was awful, this book comes close. Scarpetta is depressed, miserable, and unhappy (again). Lucy continues to be spectacularly stupid. Marino has lost weight, shaved his head, and now wears black leather (oh, no!). Benton is distant and uninvolved. The plot is boring. The writing is plodding, clipped, and just plain lousy. I don't know what happened to Ms. Cornwell, but it seems she's gone way off track since that Jack the Ripper embarrassment. It's clearly time to move on to other writers in the detective genre. Bye, bye Kay Scarpetta and R.I.P.
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