I listened to this book on CD. Head's up to the producers... there are several mispronounced words throughout the book (e.g. "viligant" rather than "vigilant."). Beyond that, I spent much of the book thinking that Kay Scarpetta, who used to be interesting, thought an awful lot about herself. It went on and on of her internal, rather narcissistic thought process (being ticked that she's referred to as "ma'am," for example, rather than "Dr."). Slogging through all that, in a 12-CD set, about 10 of the CDs cover about a four-hour period in the book with gads of revisiting past books and even very recent past events (within this book). Suddenly, the whole day abruptly wraps up towards the end of CD #11 and CD #12 is the whole happy family having about to have a lovely meal (insert twenty references to Italian foods and wines here), talking about how scared they are about what's next from Carrie.
I found this installment boring and disjointed. There's so very much description about the first four hours, then boom: Kay throws a bucket of water on Troy, short circuts the electrical trap and here we are a week later having dinner.
Patricia Cornwell, you're better than this...