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Title: hmm..who's going next?
Review: While I have really enjoyed the first 3 books of the series, I find myself asking with each subsequent book,"Who the heck will Cornwell kill off next?" Maybe that annoying absentee mother of Lucy's, maybe Kay's long lost uncle, maybe Marino's hairdresser. Patricia! Listen up! You stretch our disbelief to the breaking point with all of these deaths. Mark gets blown up, Benton loses face (groan) and a friend of Kay's is shot mistakenly after her sister is claimed for a serial killer's victim in an earlier book. Other than my overall objections to the series' determination to kill off everyone Kay loves, Black Notice was a fine book. But it didn't scare me like Post-Mortem or engross me like Hannibal. And the prose sometimes gets so dense I feel like I'm launching myself into a brick wall by catapault and sliding right down. I just can't fall into the book in the techical parts.
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