Title: Long, Boring, Without Substance
Product review: Having vowed to never buy another Scarpetta novel after the pitiful offering that was Trace, I capitulated after reading rather good reviews - note to self: NEVER believe the reviews! At the end of this novel I was left wondering what on earth the whole thing had even been about! Plots meandered off into nothing (why on earth were we told about Marcus'anxieties if it wasn't being persued later??), and once again we were "treated" to Marino's obnoxious utterings, for no purpose other than to show us that he's still a pig. Benton made some token appearances, usually to tell Scarpetta he couldn't talk to her, and Rudi, Lucy's "offsider", prowled around the novel without any useful purpose at all. My advice? Buy the Kathy Reichs novel instead!
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