Spoilers: This series has wonderfully well constructed characters and story lines which make a compelling read. However, part of this is only on the surface. If you get to thinking about it long enough you might, as I did, become completely creeped out. The cop who so easily makes his own rules, unnaturally fixated on the woman whose religion takes her in equally far directions... One night after finishing Murder in Hindsight I connected some dots and totally freaked myself out wondering if the author was putting in these subtle horror elements on purpose or not. And I don't know if I could read the next one to find out!