I continue to really enjoy these books, though I do think the revelation of Maura's heritage, here, was overdone. I'm not sure it added much to the story to drag her unsavoury relations out of the woodwork, and adding in the final murder at the end... it's all a bit over the top. I think I'd have preferred to spend page time on other things, though - I continue to enjoy the relationship between the two main characters, for example, and how they're slowly becoming friends as the books go on, and I'd rather have more of that. I'd have liked to see, as well, some of the follow-up here. All these dozens of stolen infants means an awful lot of families who have lost out on raising their children, and an awful lot of families who may yet be broken up as the child they have raised turns out to legally belong to someone else. The book feels as if it stopped before the really interesting part, although granted, neither Rizzoli nor Isles would be involved much with this particular aftermath.

All of which feels like a litany of complaint for what was actually an enjoyable thriller. And I did enjoy it, quite a lot.