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Title: Black Notice Worst Book of the Year
Review: Black Notice had to be one of the most unpleasant books that I have ever read. I enjoyed the earlier books in this series - they were well written and researched, and Kay Scarpetta was edgy in an interesting sort of way. Unfortunately, she has devolved into a narcisistic, paranoid shrew with delusions of grandeur, and her sidekicks, especially Marino, are equally self-involved and obnoxious. The books are not particularly well written anymore - Cornwell seems to be grinding them out with no editorial guidance. At least she seems to have gotten over her gun fetish, but these books have become nasty and meanspirited, with little to recommend them.
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