A very weird book. Scarpetta & Marino go back to Richmond, Virginia where she used to be CME, to help with a death of a teenager. Benton who is now officialy alive is in Aspen trying to help Lucy's latest lover who was attacked in Florida by the same guy who murdered the teenager. And who happen to be one of Scarpetta's former employees. Confused already ??? If that's not enough. we discover that Lucy is responsible for the murderer's lung disease because as a teemager she bumped into him in the morgue, a bump that caused him to swallow a drop of phormalin. So now he is intnet on killing Lucy. Since the book is not written from Scarpetta's point of view, there are many side stories. Some of them are pointless like the story of the current CME's garbage collector's phobia. This has no bearing on the main stories. And doesn't add anything to explaining why he is mistreating Scarpetta. It was already established that he resented Scarpetta because when he was hired he was told that he will never be able to fill her huge shoes. This explanation is enough and there is no need for the garbage phobia.
This brings me to an observation I already made about Patricia Corenwell. In a way Scarpetta is her and the way she always come with characters who resent and hate Scarpetta for who she is, kind of make me think that she is a bit paranoid and think that people resent her just because she is a successful female author. IMO
When I started reading the book I was mad at Scarpetta because she refused to sleep with Benton inspite of what he went through to keep her safe. Lucky for her in the end when she finally get to Aspen Scarpetta is very loving toward Benton.
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