Title: Cornwell's Worst Yet!
Product review: I avoided reading reviews of Trace on Amazon until I finished. This dreary, disjointed, and near unreadable mystery seemed horrible, but I wanted to give the book a chance and avoid following the crowd to pile on. Unfortunately, Patricia Cornwell's slump (to put it mildly) has continued and it was an ordeal to even finish Trace. How could such a talented author with any pride put out such garbage? Trace is more of a compilation of idea notes than a real book. The interesting threads in Trace quickly die while we are subjected to more psychodrama and absurdity of what has become an extremely unappealing extended mystery family. Perhaps Cornwell's greatest sin is that she has become boring. The evildoer in this book has to be the wimpiest and most boring psychopath ever created in print. Could Cornwell be attempting to portray the "banality of evil?" Of course not! Trace is just something I would not recommend to even the most hard-core fan.
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