It's not often that a serial author gets to introduce a new character to her fanbase, so I had high hopes when I picked up this book. Unfortunately, much like the Andy Brazil series, Patricia Cornwell fires off a panoply of shallow, one-dimensional characters with seemingly little motivation in the actions they take.

The worst offense of this book, however, isn't the character development - it's the lack of an actual story. We're expected to believe that two detectives in different states with different backgrounds solve three separate crimes without actually doing any investigation. Oh, and one of those crimes actually occurs in a third state that neither has jurisdiction in.

All in all, a very disappointing outing. I might have actually quit reading this book, but it's so short I was done before I had a chance.

This wasn't a book in the Scarpetta series, and I had been finding those getting worse with each new novel, so I thought that something fresh may be better to read.
Nope! I honestly don't like her writing anymore. I don't know if it is the writing that has changed or whether it is me that is changing. I do know that my reading has been a lot broader now than when I first started reading PC, so maybe that is it.

In At Risk, I struggled to follow the plot line. I was confused a lot, and felt that I ws meant to know more about the characters without her telling me about them.
I was glad to finish it, but still felt that I didn't really know what had happened and why..............

Hmm, trying to find something good to say about this book. Well the character of miss dog was quite good? Apart from that majorly disappointed!

I kept checking to see if this was an abridgement! I hate abridgements! Little character development. A real disappointment.