Suspenseful, tantilizing, left you wanting more. Can't wait for the sequel to be released this month.

(Stop Don't Read Unless you want to spare yourself the really dumb ending)First the conclusion of this book with the main mystery left unsolved leaves you feeling totally cheated. You plow thru page after page of kinda remembering Detective Ryan's childhood trauma while working another case and hey guess what its not solved. For the modern case if you can't figure out who it is --really its kinda of obvious she's the one who is overdressed! Call me a spoiler but really save yourself the time. IF you own the book read the first 100 pages --skip to 375 and carry on you won't miss a thing. Second the main character Detective Ryan, well lets say between "wanting to go out and scream" when he gets upset and trying to remember where he "smelled" a fellow officers cologne (for no particular reason), or the cinanmon smell of an apartment, and his downright ridiculous romance with his woman partner Cassie and room mate and the murdered girls sister --he's not what you'd call convincing as a guy. I'd say he's a tad girly --maybe thats the secret he can't quite remember!

Before I reached the end of this book I recommended it to a dozen of my friends and relatives; when I reached the end, I felt guilty for doing so. Though numerous reviews celebrate the "twist" ending, I figured out the ending approximately five pages into the book, and spent countless hours daydreaming about a "twist" that never came. My favorite fantasy for the ending of the book: that the narrator himself is one of those psychopaths Cassie can spot so easily, and is responsible for the childhood deaths that traumatized him...and perhaps Jonathan Devlin saw the whole thing, and made a point of forgetting it himself. That would have, perhaps, surprised me - but the actuality is such a predictable let down that I didn't even bother reading the "teaser" for her next book.