I anticipated this was going to be a REAL Scarpetta novel, back to the GOOD stuff, at last!! But no such luck! The odd switch to 3rd person for Scarpetta means she's no longer narrating, and right there you have a huge loss! Scarpetta said this, Scarpetta said that, etc., etc., etc., it's just far less interesting. I think even the lightweight plot could have been saved by PC using her winning formula of having Scarpetta doing her usual narration! I can't fathom why a terrific writer like PC would have so little regard for her fans as to mess with what we have grown to expect from her. If she's trying to drive her readership away, then just keep disappointing us like this! I threw BLOWFLY in the garbage, where it belonged, after reading just 20 pages! I'm going to finish TRACE before I donate it to the Thrift Shop. But I'm just going to have to deal with the fact that the Scarpetta series is really over now. Sad, but true!