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Title: Not worth an autopsy
Review: Devoted Cornwell fans will hate this, but I don't care much. Patricia Cornwell writes thrillers to a formula and Black Notice reads as though she is writing without thinking. You know, been there done this so many times you don't have to think any more. Her clinical descriptions of a coroner's work are meticulous and for me, the best part of the book. However generally, Cornwell's use of language is thoroughly pedestrian, the descriptions of Dr Kay Scarpetta's grief over her lost lover overwrought, clumsily written and they slow down the action. By the end of the book I couldn't have cared less who the murderer was. My first Patricia Cornwell read - and my last. Not worth an autopsy.
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