I am a very devoted Cornwell, or maybe Kay Scarpetta fan -- I'm not sure as her deviation from the KS format two books ago was so awful. There was no need to kill off Benton -- if Ms. Cornwell is so devoted to KS living a miserable and lifeless existence, please stick to writing the church bulletin. You can do all your preaching there. I don't know if I can bring myself to read another of Ms. Cornwell's books, she took my love for her writing and flushed it down the toilet, with a "good riddance" in the process.