The airport bookstore deal where you get 50% back is really not worth it, because of the choices. Cornwell has become a caricature of herself. There is no plot development, no character development, just bitter, wounded people. She likes to write with a punch, but that all there is now punch sentences. She always likes really sicko psychopaths, and this time it is necrophilia.
She seems to want to be a science fiction writer, since the technology that Scarpetta’s niece, Lucy, uses is ridiculously extensive and magic. The only good character is Mariano, the sloppy detective, that has a slow burn for the doc. There is no plot, Benton, Scarpetta’s husband and psychologist profiler, just pulls it out of the blue at the end about a French cartel that is sprung on us at the end. Lucy has problems with her DA lover, but nothing is resolved. Skip it.