This book will always hold a special place in my heart. It was the first book that I finished after almost seven years of not reading. The last book I read was Good Omens, Teri Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in 2017.

I wanted to love this book wholeheartedly and up until the part where Atticus Pund is putting the pieces together to formulate his solution to the crimes - I loved the book. I honestly lost interest when we reverted back to Susan Ryeland's story. I felt like it was just unnecessary and I figured out a whole lot of the plot before I turned the pages. I want to love this Susan Ryeland series but I just don't. Worse of all, I tried to watch the tv show just to see if it was what I had imagined - I couldn't even finish the first episode. I stopped at the fight scene between Mary and Robert Blakiston. The pacing is just off and the narration seems so grandiose.

On a brighter note, I do still love Horowitz's other work. I'm just not a fan of this introduction to the Susan Ryeland series at all.