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Review title: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery -- NOT here!
Product review: As much as I want to like Slaughter, I just can't get into her books. The subject, while relevant, has been covered before and much better -- see ANYTHING by Andrew Vachss, especially the BURKE novels. The "medical-examiner" chic prose has been done before, and better -- see the "Scarpetta" novels, by Patricia Cornwell. And the characters are too unbelievable and coarsely drawn to inspire any emotion for them.The character dialogue and interaction seems stiff, as evidenced in the excerpt posted here. And the "graphic detail" often touted in "reviews" seems to be borderline gratuitous. Slaughter has no credentials in forensics or law enforcement and this book highlights those deficiencies.The reviewers that have compared her to Cornwell, Vachss, and Reichs do those three authors a major disservice. Imitation may be "the sincerest form of flattery" but not in this case.
