At what point in a successful writer's career does she get bored with her own work or, worse,become so valuable a publising property that any evidence of editorial assistance disappears? If you were charting Cornwell's stock as a commercial endeavor: BUY, but as a developing work with tighter plot lines and more intricate personalities: SELL. The 'willing suspension of disbelief' is essential for any fiction:Cornwell's plot lines stretch the faith,and the endings are moving from fiction into fantasy. The fact that all her titles become bestsellers is akin to gulls following the garbage barge. It's a boat I have been on.............I'm getting off.