I don't think I've ever read a book from this series although I have heard of Kay Scarpetta, the infamous heroine of a great number of Cornwell's novels. Obviously, this means I've missed a lot of the characterisation of Scarpetta, but she does seem to be notoriously unlucky. She is a pathologist, who of course also solves crimes, in this case of an evil serial killer who fills his victims' eyes with sand.
This book tries as hard as it can to be as gory as possible. The dead bodies are described in grim detail, some of the details are almost described almost exquisitely and one would think the dead bodies quite beautiful if he or she didn't know better. Many of the characters in this book are unrealistically emotive. There's Dr Self, the evil and quite possibly mentally unhinged bad gal and the alcoholic old friend Marino, who is slowly more and more becoming a character he does not recognise. Scarpetta's character was the most believable one, probably because there's been several books to build her up in.
The storyline was multi-faceted. Between all the things that happen/have happened to Scarpetta, you begin to wonder how much more unrealistic it can get and then it does. Despite all this, this is not an awful book. It has its good passages and there are some nice sentences in it. It definitely won't be going on my top list though.
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