A sad book in multiple ways yet fitting for the tone of this series. It’s difficult to say more without giving too much away. The story revolves around many types of loss and deceit. It’s one of the best books in the series. Alas, I have to mark it down slightly as this could have done with a more eagle-eyed editor, one who could pick up on awkward sentences and added a few more dialogue tags to let us know who is saying what to whom, which appears to be a habit with the author. A minor irritation that doesn’t stop me from loving this series. ( )

Once again the zingers fly between March and Grice as they investigate a man taking advantage of young women. While I enjoyed the ongoing repartee of the 2 characters, I did find the multiple threads at the start of the book a bit clunky to keep track of. Also, this volume seemed darker than the others in the series. ( )

Thought I'd put off a review of each book until I'd finished bingeing on the books available so far. Still thinking to do so but a major thought on this particular book is that Kasasian might want to go with a different publisher for his ebooks. One of the main characters names was misspelled often enough that I wasn't sure which spelling was actually correct, the formatting was awful, and 'he' was replaced with 'fie' so many times I was beginning to wonder if it was somehow pertinent to the story. Who knows, maybe Kasasian is currently being held hostage by a Big Bad Publisher and the weird and thorough misspellings were actually a code. One that he was hoping would lead a sleuth, much like his Mr. Grice, to aide in his rescue. ( )