I’ve read a few of Patricia Cornwell’s novels about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, most recently The Last Precinct. From an airport book exchange, I picked up Blow Fly (2003), as a big paperback to fill some time on the plane a couple of weeks ago.
Blow Fly did the job quite well, and I left the novel on a bench in Logan Airport for the next reader. Worst part? The idea that someone could escape from death row in a Texas prison so easily. Talk about artistic license. But I read every page just the same. Blow Fly returns to the characters from the Point of Origin (1998) return to haunt Scarpetta and her usual foils. I’ve read that one, too. The titles never stick in my mind, but the general plots do.
Note: Website is all F#$#%ed-up, where F#$#%ed = Flashed. Instead of having a simple URL for each book Cornwell has written, the website throws the entire oeuvre into a single work.html, where you navigate (with difficulty) through a poor scrollbar (part of the 99% bad, per Jakob Nielsen). I’m sure some of this was done as a DRM measure, because the website lets you read the first several pages of each book by flipping the pages in Flash-powered “book” — but the price is too high.