Against my better judgement, I bought, and just finished Patricia Cornwell's latest Scarpetta book Port Mortuary.
IMO she "jumped the shark" a while ago, and this tedious tome was a sterling example. The storyline is basically good, and she restrained her political comments to a few antiwar anecdotes, and a judicious slap at the Reagan administration.....but she managed to fill it with so much "fluff" that it's nearly unreadable......over 500 pages, it would have made an excellent book at around 300.
If you are a Scarpetta fan, wait until this one hits the publisher's overrun table for $5.95.
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