Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
The science of this was still interesting, but the stereotyping was a big issue and it's easy to say it was a product of it's time and that it didn't age well, but compassion never gets old. The mystery was intriguing and I was surprised about the killer. I was shocked that one suspect, who ended up not being the killer, ended up killing himself. How the killer was able to trick people into letting him in their house was clever; he worked for airport and would steal their bags, then would deliver it to their house when it was "found" and be admitted inside to drop it/them off. He almost got Kay that way, but she realized she gave her work address and was ready to fight back, plus Moreno was watching the house. I was disgusted by the secondary story surrounding Beryl; the contents of her book, that she was abused as a child and that the woman she was living with knew the man was abusing her but did nothing about it. That her slimy lawyer (publisher?) was trying to intimidate people to get his hands on the book so he could spin it any way he wanted to after her death. That whole plot was unnecessary and irrelevant to the murder mystery. There was a lot of extraneous material in this book, but the science and mystery were good.
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