Title: A pleasant surprise from a favorite author
Product review: Patrica Cornwell writes very well, and the forensic details and law enforcement trivia add a great deal to her usual books about Kay Scarpetta. I've read them all. But they are a *tad* on the dark side.I was pleased to discover that she can also write such a delightful book as Isle of DoGs, and I hope she'll write more along this vein.The characters are fun, the plot twists keep coming, and the dialog is fresh and interesting. You won't be able to put it down.My only objection was the plot point provided by a dog giving advice to her kidnapper. Talking crabs and trout are a pleasant conceit (what they say to each other is hilarious) but it's irritating when the story is affected by a clearly unbelievable piece of business.But it didn't seriously affect the outcome, so the bottom line is, this is a fun book with a plot worthy of Hiassen, but with more believable characters (the humans, at least).
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