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I'd thought I'd read all of the Scarpetta novels but it turns out I'd missed this one and the last one ("Port Mortuary"). So I set about to remedy that and I couldn't be more disappointed. I've enjoyed the exacting and sometimes gross detail in the other books in this series but this one was so bloated with detail that it was overpowering. The plot got lost somewhere in acronym-heavy long-winded descriptions of medical technologies that were never even passingly explained and the convoluted char
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I had written off Scarpetta years ago. I was tired of her bragging egotistical ways. But this book arrived in the mail unannounced. It was quite good. Now then, I am not going to run out and read all of the Scarpettas that I missed over the last several years. Moving on...
First, I'm a Scarpetta fan... so I'm going to read the books. That said, recent books are not what I loved at the beginning of the series. I do like the return to first person, but find the plots now only center on evil people out to get Scarpetta and her cluster of friends -- and a sterile, workaholic, self-centered group they have become. I like the forensics, but have started to find the little party of law-breaking, crime solvers not very sympathetic. And yet I know I will continue to read t
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Jun 10, 2015
Marianne
marked it as to-read
Jul 22, 2019
Megan
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Sep 23, 2020
Elizabeth Weltin
marked it as to-read
