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Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta #12) by Patricia Cornwell

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Easily the worst of the series Published in 2003 by Putnam This was an utterly disappointing book. I have stepped away from Cornwell for a couple of years, but I was an avid reader before that, including the horrid series of books that Cornwell started with Hornet's Nest and Isle of Dogs . Blow Fly is just as bad, if not worse, than those books. I had thought that it was the characters that I disliked in that other Cornwell series but now I am convinced that Cornwell has changed her writing style and I am not a fan of the new Cornwell style at all. Recommendations: *Spin Lucy off. She's becoming too Batman-esque, with all of her high-powered technological gadgets, a sidekick and a helicopter. I'm sick of her and I have not liked her since she joined the FBI. *Do something with Marino other than having him drink, burp, and look unhealthy. He appears throughout the book but only does something useful at the beginning. He is a pathetic version of his rou