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Title: Doesn't even pass flying time
Review: I really, really wanted to enjoy this book -- I bought it to read on a 23-hour flight! The fact that I have picked it up again, two months after getting home, and find a boarding pass marking page 33 (when I gave up on it) tells the story. This book is so over-written and completely lacking in humanity and humor that it could not even while a plane journey away. I thought at the time that I was perhaps not being fair, being jetlagged already, so have picked it up several times since getting back home. But so far I have not got much farther than the boarding pass. This book does not even read as if it was written by Patricia Cornwell. I loved her first few books, and physician friends agree that she never put a foot wrong in her description of autopsies, but boy, this one is really bad. Give it a miss, if you are a new Cornwell reader; read the earlier ones instead.
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