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Review title: What's happened to Patricia Cornwell?
Product review: Yikes! I ussed to rush right out and buy the hardback copy of each new Patricia Cornwell novel, but I'm certainly glad I obtained "Blow Fly" from the library. Cornwell's writing has definitely gone downhill right along with Scarpetta's career. My first clue was that this book, unlike every other Scarpetta novel, was written in third person -- not from Scarpetta's point of view. I guess this is because she's not actually IN the plot quite a bit of the time. At any rate, it seems like Cornwell is grasping at straws -- right up to the "let's bring someone back from the dead" moment. These used to be great police/forensic procedurals with interesting repeating characters. Now the Scarpetta books are full of paranoia and long, drawn-out character descriptions. While I was glad to read this latest installment just to satisfy my curiosity, I'm glad I didn't pay for it!
