Over almost a quarter of a century, Kay Scarpetta (MD, Attorney, would-be chef at a posh Ristorante Italiano) has seen her career steam merrily ahead, crash and burn, turn into a gun for hire, and - finally - culminate in her appointment as chief of a high-tech crime lab (associated with what? one wonders) in the middle of metropolitan Boston. Nice work if you can get it.
In the same twenty-four years, Scarpetta's relationship with Benton Wesley (or is it Wesley Benton? I always forget) has progressed from "the other woman" to lover to quasi-widow to a print version of Pam Ewing waking up to find Bobby in the shower to who's-his-face's happily-married spouse. She's dragged her anti-authoritarian lesbian paranoid genius niece, Lucy, and the brutish cop Marino every step of the way.
To all that, I say, "Give it a rest, Kay!"
