Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

Why Do I Keep Reading These?:

This Detective Inspector Ashton's 11th outing. It could be interchanged with several of the previous outings. Someone is murdered, Ashton catches the case, she solves case, her personal life remains static. I keep hoping that Ashton will grow as a person, but she remains the same book after book. After finishing this one, I promised myself to read number 12 and if it wasn't an improvement, I will stop reading the series and move on - much as I wish Carol Ashton would.

Good Procedural But . . .:

In Detective Inspector Carol Ashton's ninth outing, she must find a serial killer who sends each potential victim a similar letter. The killer is careful and doesn't give Ashton much to go on other than the letters. The author has gotten stale in her last few outings, Ashton seems locked into a relationship that doesn't give her much satisfaction, but she can't seem to let go of it either. The procedural part of the book remains well done, but the author has got to do something with her character's personal... more info

Lost the plot:

Claire McNab has lost the plot - the series started well but the story lines now seem to take second place to the inspector's private life. Carol Ashton while proclaiming a wish to stay with Sybil can't seem to pass up an oportunity to sleep with any woman that comes along. The sex scenes have become functional & unappealing. A shame.

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