Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 6/23/2008 + 174 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I've read all of Patricia Cornwell's books and I wasn't particularly impressed with this one. Scarpetta, Marino and Lucy have moved to Charleston, S.C. I was much happier with Kay when she was in Virginia, but Cornwell keeps moving her around so much that the reader never knows where she'll wind up next.

There is too much going on with too many characters at once, and before you know it, the story has left one geographical location and is in another. I was totally confused with the storyline of Dr. Self. I couldn't stand the character and the testing that was done on her made absolutely no sense to me.

The storyline isn't pulled together in a cohesive way, and one part of the story isn't resolved at the end, so I hope that's one of the first things that gets attention in the next Kay Scarpetta novel. All in all, I didn't enjoy this one as much as I have some other of her books. It's basically a story of the woes of Scarpetta, Benton, Marino, Lucy and Rose. A big disappointment.

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