What readers think of Blow Fly, plus links to write your own review.

What a horrible piece of writing from Cornwell. I loved all of her other Scarpetta novels - especially the early ones because they did an incredible job of leading you through the process of solving a crime from the forensic and detective point of view...Blow Fly has very little of this. Scarpetta has turned into a truely unbelieveable character, one that I have learned to dislike. I can't believe she brought back a character that died in the last novel -- so soap opera-ish -- and of course 'super' Lucy is always right there, guns-a-blazen'.
Cornwell should stick to the stuff that made her earlier books good, the details of the crime. Except for the blood, gore, and phyco babble -- I thought I was reading a really bad Danielle Steel novel.
This is not even worth the time reading, even for die-hard Cornwall fans. Just ask someone what happens, and save yourself the agony of reading it. I hope a ghost writer was responsible for this waste of time, and Cornwell will write the next one with the fire of her first few Scarpetta novels.

Since Benton Wesley appears at the beginning of the book, it would not be giving away the information that--a miracle! Benton Wesley has been resurrected and is alive and in hiding. I own all of Cornwell's books and am a loyal reader, to say the least! Can Ms. Cornwell believe that we forgot that Carrie Gretham was the one to do the deed on Benton, and how truly upset Lucy and Marino were? And can she think that we would believe that a man of his integrity would hide out like a scared rabbit for all those years? (I am not giving away who did the cover up.) You see, the thing is that we readers are so into the characters that it sure seems to me that Ms. Cornwell could drum up other new believable characters and not treat Benton Wesley, the girls, and us this way. Still, there is much to enjoy about any and all of Cornwell's books. I bought the hardback of Blow Fly and liked the details a lot!

Oh P.S. I wonder if Cornwell could possibly have Scarpetta generate up a little more energy, she does get to be a drag sometimes!

Overwrought...I'm afraid Patricia Cornwall has fallen into the literary version of the soap opera genre with this one! Disappointing to say the least.