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Title: I Was Forewarned
Review: Despite all of the negative reviews I wanted to read this book to find out for myself if it was really as bad as the critics have said. And.....it really was. I was most surprised that, for an accomplished writer, Patricia Cornwell wrote with such a lack of focus. It was as if she took a shotgun approach - blasting out clusters of speculations in hopes that some might randomly find the mark and stick as facts. The previous reviewers have all done a thorough job in delineating all of the non-facts and fallacies in her argument for fingering Walter Sickert as the infamous Jack the Ripper. No need to be redundant here.I did give "Portrait of a Killer" a generous two-star rating because a) I did finish the book, and b) it did contain a modicum of interest for me. However, in the end it was a totally unconvincing and unsatisfying read.
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