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Title: Don't waste your time on this uninspired nonsense
Review: I felt ongoing instances of deja vu while reading "Black Notice" -- same characters acting the same way, and repetitive plot devices that Cornwell has used ad infinitum. The main characters do not grow or change at all during the course of the novel, and the rest of the cast is as thin as the pages they are written on.Someone needs to teach the author the difference between foreshadowing and telegraphing. I won't reveal the unsatisfying ending, but any reader will know after the first 25 pages where this one is headed. I believe several other Scarpetta books have ended in the exact same fashion.The only thing remarkable about this book is the lack of any type of suspense. And the only mystery is that Cornwell is paid so much to write so poorly. Let's hope she invests some of that cash in taking courses at the local community college. She could use some tutoring on plot and characterization.
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