DON'T !
So here we are again, decided to give Patrica Cornwell another chance, having read her last book and hated it.
Please don't spend any money buying her latest "The Front". If you think you must read it, check it out at the library. She has really lost her original talent. This is a skinny little volume, 180 pages. I think she is trying to re-introduce a character from the last book, Win Guarano. The 3 major characters here are all one-dimensional. Win is a detective, Monique is the DA, Stump is also a detective, kind of crime scene specialist. We might like, or dislike these people, but we don't get to "know" them. All three of them seem to totally dislike each other, and Cornwell tries to tie this all up in the last 10 or so pages, along with the denouement of the 1962 murder case he has been assigned, serial bank robberies, and mysterious wire transfers by the DA.
Win dresses in high-end clothing (which he gets from a thrift/second hand shop; the DA spends money like a drug dealer gone wild; Stump lost part of a leg in a motorcycle accident. This is about all the character building we get from this choppy, confusing, awkwardly written book. Win's Nana is an interesting character, but is left to wither on the vine after the first few chapters.
Oh, my what a mess!
Please don't spend any money buying her latest "The Front". If you think you must read it, check it out at the library. She has really lost her original talent. This is a skinny little volume, 180 pages. I think she is trying to re-introduce a character from the last book, Win Guarano. The 3 major characters here are all one-dimensional. Win is a detective, Monique is the DA, Stump is also a detective, kind of crime scene specialist. We might like, or dislike these people, but we don't get to "know" them. All three of them seem to totally dislike each other, and Cornwell tries to tie this all up in the last 10 or so pages, along with the denouement of the 1962 murder case he has been assigned, serial bank robberies, and mysterious wire transfers by the DA.
Win dresses in high-end clothing (which he gets from a thrift/second hand shop; the DA spends money like a drug dealer gone wild; Stump lost part of a leg in a motorcycle accident. This is about all the character building we get from this choppy, confusing, awkwardly written book. Win's Nana is an interesting character, but is left to wither on the vine after the first few chapters.
Oh, my what a mess!
