Well this was certainly creepy! I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much, as the blurb sort of gave the impression of another murder mystery in which women were the tortured and brutalised victims of serial killers, and that trope gets old quickly. It's true that such is the case here, but it's leavened somewhat by the fact that two of the three main characters are women, and they're the ones who stop the killer. I'd like it a little more if one of those women hadn't been one of his victims, but from what I understand of the series, starting from the next book it becomes a partnership of two women in law enforcement, and I'm interested in reading that. Jane Rizzoli is certainly compelling, even if I don't entirely like her. Sympathetic as I am to women battling sexism in the workplace, she's not actually that nice a person... and I like that. I like that the heroine isn't relegated to this unfairly put-upon saint of a character. Male detectives get to be difficult, unpleasant people all the time in fiction, so it's fun to see equal treatment here. Unlike romance, which I've been reading a lot of recently, I don't need the protagonists of murder mysteries to be likeable people. I'm actually more interested when they aren't, which just goes to show the impact genre has on how characters are received...