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Review title: Is Cornwell Intentionally Alienating Her Fans?
Product review: Patricia Cornwell has apparenty become too successful to put much effort into her books anymore. The characters are so inconsistently written from one chapter to the next (especially Lucy and Marino) that its hard to believe the same person wrote every chapter. Marino was a promising character throughout the Scarpetta series, although Cornwell never quite got his tone right. In this book,he is reduced to a pathetic, imbecilic loser, and thoroughly unlikeable. Lucy has become totally unbelievable, as has another character that has morphed into a "supercop" more appropriate to a James Bond story than a Kay Scarpetta mystery. And Kay herself has been marginalized.The story plods along, dull and grim, until suddenly ending in a couple of dozen pages, as if even Cornwell cannot take this story anymore and is desperate to see it done with.
