There are writers who remain their entire career or lifetime. Ms. Cornwell is no more; celà for a long and a novel called "Island of Dogs" would he rather be titled "decline of the island." Because it revolves around the characters, trying with great difficulty to draw any substance, in vain ... Scarpetta and Benton are emptied and therefore turns on itself. Because it has to rehash, rine again, no rhythm, no history, no suspense, nothing! Ms. Cornwell would have found ideas, why not in life "real" world she definitely has the depart over success.