I get the feeling Patricia Cornwell wants the Kay Scarpetta/Carrie Grethen relationship to give off Sherlock/Moriarty vibes. It does not work. This book is just hundreds of pages of a bunch of super-intelligent, privileged, and pretentious Ivy League-educated cops and federal agents talking down to each other and lying to each other. And I’m not even joking. If Jane Austen were to write a mystery novel this would be it. I hate books where absolutely nothing get accomplished by the end. I don’t even care that this is a series, the end wasn’t satisfying at all. There was no resolution at all, just a magical wave of the hand at the end to explain everything the author couldn’t be bothered to explain. Overall, just an ordeal to get through. Gave it a two because there were some tense moments that gave me hope for excitement to come, even though I was let down every single time.