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Review title: What a mess
Product review: This reads like a novelist's first effort. It's badly written and badly edited. Unnecessary, speculative descriptions of characters that appear for only a paragraph feel like padding, while Scarpetta herself is almost an incidental character. Lucy is a mess. Teasing her partner? Annoying. Murdering another character? Unconscionable, even if he is a scum bag. Cornwell's knowledge is starting to grate; her description of a helicopter pre-flight routine doesn't add to the story, it feels like she's showing off. And the plot? Absurd. (Please tell me why Lucy the technological wizard immediately thinks Chandonne has escaped when he supposedly calls her from in front of her building; can't she call the Texas prison to check? Ridiculous!) I wish Cornwell hadn't published this book; it shows a certain level of scorn for her many fans.
