The Preditor was ok. I just picked up some bargain books along those lines. I read those much too fast. It keeps me occupied while I am on call.
the lesbian theme is a bit more pronounced in this one, it seems to me, isn't it? I know there were rumors about Patricia Cornwell because she has the lesbian niece of Dr. Scarpetta in all of these novels, and the pix of her (cornwell) wearing sort of mannish clothes on the dustjackets also kind of evoke that same thing.