I loved Cornwell and Scarpetta when I was much younger—in my teens and twenties. Having gotten away from a lot of mainstream reads, due to being busy with indie authors’ books, I haven’t picked up one of these in probably 15 or 20 years, so I wanted to see if I’d still enjoy them. I’ve found that a lot of my favorite authors from when I was younger just bore me now.

Scarpetta is always a fun lead to have, I remember what I liked about reading her POV as a kid was that I learned a lot. Re-binging this book, I’m realizing that this is where I learned a lot and maybe become more interested in CJ (which is interesting as I did later go on to major in it). 

Enough about that—onto the book at hand…

“The dead have never bothered me—it’s the living I fear.”

While there is more ‘telling’ than I’d like, as I prefer being ‘shown’ these days, it did hold my interest—I love a good mystery read.

Police procedural.

Serial killer on the loose.

Sexism in the workplace.

Female lead in male-dominated professions.

*Will possibly re-read more into this series.

Audio:

The audio is fine—overall smooth sound quality. The narrator isn’t the best I’ve heard but she did fine. 4 stars.