With dust cover references to Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and nothing to say she wasnt in the book, I erroneously bought the book. I finished it, it was not a riviting, put everything else aside mystery like the previous Dr. Scarpetta stories. The style was different, broken up, and a little dificult to follow at first. The style was so different from the forensic novels, I'd almost venture someone else wrote this book, because even the sentence structure seemed odd, not like before. Authors have a right to change style and characters. There should have been a big warning label, "No Dr. Scarpetta in Here". This may be a good novel. I however was looking for a forensic thriller, this was not