Barbara M. reviewed on 12/12/2019 + 152 more book reviews

This is the first book in this series and the first I've read by this author (which is actually two people). I thought it was a cut above some other mystery series (i.e., "Monkeewrench" by P.J. Tracy and the Tess Monaghan series by Laura Lippman). Some of the one- and two-star reviews described the book as practically pornographic because of the "crude sexual talk" and the "uncalled for. . .sex scenes"; another stated the author was "embarrassingly sexist" and a "creepy, dirty old man." I'm fairly straight laced and I didn't find there were any overt "sex scenes." There was an instance where one of Dr. Brockton's students came onto him but what transpired was pretty tame, only involving a kiss. I didn't find anything remotely racy in that scenario.

Some of the descriptions of procedures were too long and uninteresting to me. I also found the Dr. Brockton character somewhat unlikeable; however, his wife had died a couple years earlier and he seemed unable to move forward from that. By the end of the book, the doc finally seemed to be taking the next step in the grief process. So, I will read the book #2 in the series.

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