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Title: Because I can't give it zero
Review: Postmortem, which won the Edgar award, was a great, intriguing mystery, with a somewhat disappointing ending. Sadly, each of Cornwell's subsequent books has been progressively worse, with Hornet's Nest nearing rock bottom. Point of Origin is at best a marginal improvement. After her miserable attempt at creating new characters in Hornet's Nest, Cornwell apparently decides to retread all too familiar ground. In her latest installment, she simply falls back on (ad nauseum) relationships and plots (even killers and their crimes) that she has already mangled. Perhaps she thought the additional gore would mask the fetid stench of her decaying storyline. -- Hey, if she can mix her melodramatic metaphors, so can I.
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