There\’s a small bit of interest in the character of manipulative pop psychologist Dr. The reader knows pretty much from the second chapter who he is, so there\’s very little suspense. Although the murderer is described as having meaningful rituals, once he\’s revealed, the meaning of these rituals is inadequately explained. There\’s no mystery here it\’s an awkward amalgam of forensic science (interesting, I guess, but with no real human element), a poem to Rome, a Dear John letter to Charleston, and some annoying pseudopsychology around death, assault, and avoidant attachment styles…with a big dollop of gardening advice. Although more or less competently written (though the repeated iteration of \”Let\’s don\’t do this\” was driving me up the wall), this book is ten different kinds of a mess.
Thanks to this coming across my BookBub list, I spent two bucks and three hours reminding myself why I am no longer a Cornwell fangirl.
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I liked the Kay Scarpetta series back when the first few books came out, and then I lost interest in the late \’90s. Review #3 Audiobook Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
But she seems to have developed an intense hatred for her own characters, which makes her books increasingly painful to read. Cornwell used to be a great author, and I loved her earlier books. Self – could we just murder her already? And a new annoying device – instead of telling us how the investigation proceeds, she has two characters talk about it, after the fact, in dialogue that goes on for so many pages, with so few identifying marks that you lose track of who\’s supposed to be talking. Plenty of extraneous characters who contribute nothing to the plot. The parts written from the killer\’s perspective are so confuddled you don\’t know which murder he\’s committing, or why, and you don\’t really care. Murders are thrown in willy-nilly, almost as if she ran out of plot so she introduced another one but not in any sort of chronological order. I want to smack Lucy, shoot Marino, and shake Kay till her teeth rattle. Cornwell\’s characters are, if anything, more disturbed and obnoxious than ever.
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