" I found this book, which is very long - almost 700 pages in the hardback edition I read - quite enjoyable, and it did get better in the latter half, in my view. There were many different points of view, which didn't altogether work for me, and the back story of a murder of a small toddler 20 odd years before the main story took up altogether too much of the novel, in my view. I suspect also that real Inspector Lynley fans might be a bit disappointed, as he doesn't really dominate the book. "
— Nina, 1/14/2014