![]() ![]() But the police-procedural routine (including clinical descriptions of the victims' bodies) is convincing the obligatory characters (Kay's niece Lucy, bullying boss Dr. Kay Scarpetta, her harried narrator-heroine, is so painfully tight that the landscape (Richmond, Virginia) is barely there, and the detective work-involving DNA profiling, traces of borax, a break-in to Kay's computer files, and a sweetish smell the killer leaves behind-is competent but no more. How has the killer picked his victims, and what did they have in common? Cornwell's focus on County Medical Examiner Dr. ![]() The plot is as familiar as yesterday's headlines: four young women have been attacked at home, raped, and strangled, always on Friday nights, by someone who seems familiar with their habits. Another serial killer is on the loose in a first novel from reporter, biographer Cornwell (A Time for Remembering-not reviewed). ![]()
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