I guess this was a mystery because we didn't know who did it until the end, but it annoyed me that we *really* didn't know. The killer was just some random guy who played no part in the story at all. I guess I am accustomed to mysteries where the bad guy/girl is someone we've met during the story. It doesn't mean that I always figure out who it is, but you at least have some context. In this, we get a whole lot of info about the bad guy at the end - there was no point in the story where you could have said, "It could be this guy"

The story is older (written in 1985) and goes into lots of detail about DNA testing - it was in it's early days back then. There's lots of detail about a lot of the testing done in the ME's office. The characters were ok - though the heroine never really won my affection. I liked Marino and Lucy the best. :-)

Would I real another in this series? Not sure - and I guess that sums up my feelings about the book. When I've read the Dagliesh (P.D. James), Inspector Wexford (Ruth Rendell) or Inspector Lynley (Elizabeth George) books, I've always wanted to read more than one, and have loved the characters. Not so with Dr. Kay.

I would give this two and a half stars if we had that option, so I went with three - being generous

Changed my mind and took it down to two stars