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Book Review of The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 20)

The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 20)
Helpful Score: 8


Oh my. Her first 4-5 books were wonderful; I was a true fan. Anything since then is dreadful. I've reached the point I think I need to say she needs to quit writing and do something else. She is living only on dumb people buying the next book who are HOPING against hope this one will be like her very first. This one was really ridiculous. Page upon page of describing driving from one place to another, meals and refrigerator #1 and #2, mental thoughts no one was interested in and worst of all--I swear I read the whole book---at the end the killer identified in last few pages when she said 'I recognized the voice' and she names him--I could not even REMEMBER as a CHARACTER brought out in the book. I was so stunned I went back and tried to find anywhere the man was even mentioned and gave up. I started laughing at myself for being foolish enough to try once more one of her books. Enough. Boring, boring, skip all the driving, conversation, your menus and your likes/dislikes and give us gut wrenching spellbinding story. It's like she tries to write her own personality into the story: egotist, pompous---picky about food (what a name dropper on the food arena, and refrigerator 1 and 2? Absurd.