" This is a suspenseful crime mystery that provides the reader just enough detail to expect a breakthrough after each page turn. The protagonists seemed somewhat stereotypic to me, but this was my first introduction to Woods' regular characters, Stone Barrington and Holly Barker, and maybe they've been developed in more depth in preceding books. I learned of this mystery novel from its month-long stay on the New York Times best seller list in the spring of 2006 "
— Ronald, 2/1/2014