A review by alykat_reads
Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell

medium-paced

2.0

For once I actually was sort of enjoying a Kay Scarpetta novel. Surprise, Benton Wesley is back from the dead! Kay is still self-centered as usual, Lucy is becoming a vigilante more and more, Marino is still head over heels for Kay for some ungodly known reason because she still treats him like shit. None of that was as bothersome during this because I was kind of lost in the plot for once. But then the ending ruined everything. I was getting nervous as I was getting to the end because I didn't see how it could wrap up. All the build up over 380 pages to have it mostly end in 5. And not even because of a cliffhanger (well, not really). Benton kills Will or whatever the attorney's name was in the cellar. Then it's casually mentioned a few paragraphs later that Jay was also killed down there. WHAT??? Literally have gone on about the shady character for like 4 books now and THAT is how you're going to close that??? COP OUT. Jail, Patricia, immediate jail. Could have been a 4 star book for me without the crappy wrapping up of things in 3 pages. Must have reached her word count and wanted to be done. Such low effort. 
And of course Jean-Baptiste is still on the loose though. Great, have to suffer through his presence in future books. This character is done, all used up. Time to move on. Marino is always so close to a heart attack but is somehow still hanging on.