I am appalled at what happens in the story, don’t get me wrong. It all feels author-manufactured - I’m simply not feeling it. She’s not making us feel the fear, the frustration. There are also some good messages in here, but Cornwell is not evoking our emotions. There is so much possibility here for that tension and drama from Kay’s worry that someone is watching her the conflict between Kay and Pete Pete’s constant whining about how necessary he was for her - and Kay does go on to note how necessary he was in being her investigator Granby’s vendetta and all the ways he could take any of them down Kay, Benton, and Lucy’s plot to take Granby down Benton’s anger and frustration and, the murders themselves. Create the drama with show and not whine.
If Cornwell is trying to create tension and drama, stop. I swear if Cornwell had cut out half the yammering on about Kay’s feelings about the school, Benton, and Marino, she could have cut the book in half. She whines on about it a LOT more than any symptoms we’ve seen from Benton. More whining that is driving me mad, if only because she keeps harping on it, is her worry that Benton will or has gone mad himself through constantly putting himself in the criminal’s mind. Pete’s defection is piled on that, so it’s probably fair for her to be moping. To be fair, she is sick with the flu and she just got back from helping with the murdered children in Connecticut. So, hullo? Why would he give her the opportunity to do it again?Īnd Kay is being whiny. And I’m feelin’ that righteous anger until…Kay confesses that she talked him out of quitting every time he wanted to make a change. Is Marino really that insecure that he needs Kay to constantly wish/command/demand his presence everywhere she goes? As for Kay, she is angry that he never let her know that he was quitting.
Marino is pissy with Kay and Benton: Kay because Marino’s both attracted and repelled by her, and Benton because Benton’s so much better than Marino is, and Kay chose him over Pete. And I find myself hoping he can’t make out with the Cambridge PD and comes crawling back to Kay! My TakeĪ much better story than the last Kay Scarpetta I read, but I do feel as though I’ve missed a story what with all the drama about Pete Marino. The story is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Twenty-first in the Kay Scarpetta mystery series and revolving around a forensic pathologist and her FBI agent profiling husband. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Cruel & Unusual, Port Mortuary, Red Mist, Bone Bed, Flesh and Blood, Depraved Heart, The Scarpetta Factor, Trace Dust by Patricia Cornwellįorensic mystery in Hardcover edition that was published by G.P. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.
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