I loved this book just as much as I loved the first one, Silent in the Grave. Brisbane is as mysterious and interesting as always and Julia is fun and a great narrator. They make a great and entertaining team to. I also loved Julia's family.

The developing relationship between Julia and Brisbane is interesting and the characters have great chemistry. I like how their relationship is not the focus of the book.

The mystery is multi-leveled and there are multiple culprits. I think it would be impossible to guess everything that everyone has done wrong in the book. Unlike in the previous book, I didn't guess who the main culprit was.

There are a few things I did have problems with though:
There were some things Brisbane definitely should have noticed, which he apparently doesn't, because he never mentions them. But then Julia notices them and congratulates herself while teasing Brisbane that she has information that he doesn't have just to annoy him. But he, as a professional investigator, should pick up on that sort of thing. For example, Julia notes that a character is left handed but that the murder was committed by a right handed person, so it couldn't be the left handed character. She then withholds the fact that this character is left handed from Brisbane - but wouldn't he have already noticed something so obvious? And then the epiphany at the end that lets Julia solve the case also seemed like something Brisbane should have noticed right from the start.
Also I wish a few of the minor characters had been more developed.

But overall this is a great book!