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Title: The jacket blurb seduced me, but the novel betrayed me.
Review: Teh jacket's description of the plot sounded as if this novel was going to be more of a murder mystery than the last few books about Scarpetta have been. If I wanted to read about characters' emotional problems, I would go read a work of general fiction. When I buy a mystery, I expect that the main point of the story is solving the mystery -- not having to wade through characters' angst and personal problems. Now, yes, those can be written so as to be key to the plot. But they weren't in this novel. I WON'T be sucked in again by a misleading jacket description. And I won't be buying any more books by Patricia Cornwell!
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