I've read all of Patricia Cornwell's books. My love for Dr. Kay Scarpetta and the other significant players in the Scarpetta series has started to go south. I don't find Kay, Lucy, or even the irreverently politically incorrect Marino to be very interesting or entertaining any more. Nearly all of the events of this book take place in one very long day, with a little too much navel-gazing on Kay's part. Without giving away too much of the plot, I felt like this book had a lot of build up to what could have been a "big reveal" but really went nowhere, and left us still with a "sort-of" mystery. I'm a bit disappointed...but I'll probably read the next Scarpetta story anyway.