Fresh off the conveyor belts of Suspense Inc.

Byline: William Saunderson-Meyer

Fresh off the conveyor belts of Suspense Inc SCARPETTA Patricia Cornwell Little Brown RUN FOR YOUR LIFE James Patterson (with Michael Ledwidge) Century THE ASSOCIATE John Grisham Century IT IS appropriate that Patricia Cornwell's most recent novel is simply called Scarpetta she churns them out with the mechanical efficiency of a McDonald's burger palace, and they have sadly become similarly stodgy and only momentarily satisfying. The series that spawned the entirely new genre of forensic fiction previously had haunting titles like Body of Evidence, All That Remains, and Cruel and Unusual.

But the books are no longer the cutting-edge forensic fiction they once were. Instead they have become crossovers, four parts …