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These arrived in the post today - improving my outlook immediately. The Patricia Cornwell - a very welcome package from Honeybone Inc. - I began at lunchtime. It’s so weird. I have rarely been more disconcerted by a book. She’s changed from first person to third person - it’s all “Scarpetta says this” and “Scarpetta saw that”. It makes it very hard going, but I am persevering. Apparently she did it in her last Scarpetta effort as well - I am yet to investigate the Saint magazine - it’s more for my Saint collection.

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i didn’t even know there was a new scarpetta novel out!
but i did find the change in narrative voice extremely disconcerting in “blowfly”, kind of like we are now being distanced from the character of scarpetta in order to go for a more conventional thriller style.

robert typed this on Sep 07 04 at 3:56 pm