Title: Difficult, disappointing and dull.
Product review: I tried to get enthused by this book. I failed. So, I tried again; and, yes, I failed again.I knew from the Kirkus review that this was not the usual accomplished Scarpetta novel, but I was prepared to give it a go. I found the plot(?) ludicrous, the characters so flimsy that they didn't last the length of the novel and ... Well, I guess you can say that one of my favourite authors let me down.The writing was difficult to follow at times and the story seemed to lurch from scene to scene. Often, when an author tries to capture dialect you can see failure laid before you on the page (the most notable for me is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte), and Cornwell's attempt to capture the inbred, closed dialect of the inhabitants of Tangier Island left me bemused, not amused.That being said, there were a patches of truly well observed behaviour that presented true farce: regrettably they were too few.
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