Enjoyable storyline, but the casual sexism that the main character's love interest employs (and the MC's stereotypical reactions) annoyed me. Example: the MC has angered a local motorcycle gang through a series of misunderstandings. She is driving home and sees a dozen of them idling on her street and in her driveway. She is understandably afraid, immediately turns around and flees before they see her. She calls her business partner (also love interest/ex-cop) and this is their conversation:

She unwrapped a 3 Musketeers bar and took a bite.
“Let me guess, you panicked and headed for the nearest chocolate bar.”
She could hear the laughter in his voice.
“It’s probably the kind of logic only a terrified woman understands,” Sadie said around a second bite of chocolate.

That is just grating.

Ugh, why does it always have to be babies? Can't adults have serious relationships without it *always* resulting in children?!

I enjoyed the journey through this book - well, as much as one can when reading about a twisted serial killer. The scene between Claire and Leilah was especially good - they hash things out over Ryan like grown women instead of immature teenagers and then move on! And talk about things that aren't men! It's a miracle and that's a sad fact.

Then it all goes downhill for me when the

ONLY TWO WOMEN ON THE TEAM ARE KIDNAPPED AND HAVE TO BE RESCUED BY THE MENFOLK. Seriously? Claire, I could understand being unaware because all the danger was pointing at Casey, though it seems like an incredible oversight on the part of the "professionals" (Hutch & Marc) of the team not to imagine this scenario.

Casey? Surely after getting the text and photo of Claire's situation, she should have known that this was a trap. This sort of shit is what she does for a living. The fact that Jack just sneaks up on her with chloroform is hard for me to stomach.

Overall, not my favorite in the series, but not a total disaster either. I will still pick up the next book and hope for better things.

Nothing really happened in this book and then it ended. Actually, it didn't "end" so much as it seems like Sefton just stopped writing. The lack of build up throughout the plot made me less disappointed by the serious dearth of payoff, however. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

I doubt I'll be picking up the third in the series.

I wish these books were more suspense and less romance, to be honest. Because the investigations are great to read about, but I don't really give a fuck about the characters who are cannot keep it in their pants long enough to solve a case. Forming a connection that will eventually lead to a relationship? Fine, absolutely. Kay Hooper does that well. The way Brant writes romance just doesn't appeal to me, I guess.

The paranormal phenomenon

being somewhat real

was jarring and felt as if it were stuck into the plot rather than a natural part of it.

This book made me more interested in Adam Raiker than his investigators that were the protagonists of this story. I did think by the end it seemed more of a set up for the next book (assassin after Raiker) than something that was written on its own merit for the story.