I really liked Cornwell’s early books like The Body Farm, Cruel and Unusual, and Body of Evidence, but I thought she got a bit lost in her last books, the names of which I am no longer certain. I thought that she spent a little too much energy trying to sell/justify/explain lesbianism, and all of that was a distraction to the main story line of those books. After being disappointed with three more books, I decided she was off my list. The only reason that I came back was that a friend handed this book to me after she finished it, and said it was Cornwell’s best. I might not go that far, but the author has found her road back to a captivating story. Cornwell weaves in all the usual characters from Kay Scarpetta, the master forensic pathologist who is now world-famous and a CNN commentator; Pete Moreno, the remarkable detective who has always led a most alcoholic and otherwise more dysfunctional personal life; Benton Wesley, the psychiatrist and serial killer profiler to whom she is now married; and Lucy, her niece who can do anything being a computer whiz who was previously fired by the ATF and FBI. Some time has passed since they were all in the same place and she makes a plausible story of how they get involved again on the same crazy case that requires all of them to solve it. I liked that she gave hints about the traumas that happened among them that drove them apart, but it takes a while to bring out that full story. The end was thrilling, although the very end was rather predictable. I liked this one enough that Ms. Cornwell is back on my list.
WCDon
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