Mora Italian – Phoenix, Arizona
In the dark ages before satellite radio and podcasts, my Kim and I usually listened to books on tape to pass the time during long trips. Mystery author Patricia Cornwell was one of my Kim’s very favorites. The protagonist for Cornwell’s best-selling novels was medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, a perfectionist and workaholic who uses forensic technologies to solve crime. Most of Cornwell’s novels kept us enthralled from onset to finale. Then came that one novel, the one building up toward a slowly revealing and scintillating climax but which finished abruptly. The bad guy did it! The end! That abrupt conclusion torqued so much I swore I’d never listen to another Kay Scarpetta novel. My aggravation was so deep I removed a…