Every time I start the next Patricia Cornwell novel, I think: I wonder if this is the one where characters won’t randomly be spouting off homophobia. Last time was close, but this time, well it’s a whole sub-plot again. She (or rather Kay) is clearly working through her feelings on the 1990s’ back and forth tension about sexuality and still not 100% how she feels about it. It’s respectable to a certain degree to have a character struggle with how she feels about it and […]

The fourth book in the Kay Scarpetta series and like the previous one, it’s all getting better in certain ways, while this goes to some places that I almost always hate in mystery series. In this novel, we’re months or about year after the previous novel, and we find Kay Scarpetta reflecting on events in her life. She’s also on call because of an upcoming execution, where barring a governor’s intercession she will need to pronounce the death of the infamous killer being put to […]