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Title: Badly done repeat of earlier work.
Review: There was little original in this book. The subplot of a power struggle that involves the sabotage of Kay's career by computer- was straight out of Postmortem. Kay's identifying a genetic disorder in the villian by a description of how he smells, straight out of Postmortem again. The final showdown as the killer invades Kay's home aftr she stupidly opens the door- straight out of Body of Evidence. And pretty close to the final scene in Postmortem. Frankly, its an insult to the readers memories- the only new thing here is the younger man/older woman romance and thats a pretty minor part of the book since the character development of the man is so shallow. Don't waste your time reading this, Postmortem tells the same story but does an infinitely better job. In that book the characers are fairly well developed and likable, here all the characters are just pale shadows of their incarnations in previous works.
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