2008-08-27 Disappointing - again!

As a fan of Cornwell and Scarpetta for many years I still keep buying the new books desperately hoping they will get better again but yet again, with "Book of the Dead", I am sorely disappointed. As another reviewer has written, Scarpetta is becoming characterless and if Cornwell is not careful she will become too dull to read at all.

The plot looks promising at the start but soon loses momentum and becomes muddled and uninteresting. The saga with Marino is left open but not even as a cliffhanger - it just fades away. There is no "reveal" at the end to clear up the loose ends and most importantly, why it all happened, and I was left wondering whether I was really all that bothered anyway.

She needs to get back to the "Body farm" & "From Potter's Field" quality - and fast!