" I think my biggest problem with the story is how women are portrayed. Of course, they're all on top of their game and smart...but also anorexic, emotional, sex-kittens, don't know what they want, book-smart but street dumb. All the dialogue where the women were involved made my stomach turn. Then again all the characters were a caricature of what they were supposed to be: the bad-ass tough-as-nails private detective, the street gang members, the mobster, the "cops". This is the second book I read from the Spenser series and I think it will be my last. "
— Ellie, 2/15/2014