Four and a quarter stars. I have to confess, I'm no longer reading these books for Eve & Roarke. Roarke, even though he has an Irish accent (which I love), is just too perfect! He seems to be able to do...well...anything (or buy or create anything), and that's boring. And Eve? Well, she doesn't really change. Note I qualified that - she was a lot more open about how she feels about Roarke than in previous books. But...the not knowing about clothes and the hating Trina's activities...been there done that. I was seriously thinking about breaking up with the series, but then I realized that I enjoy the suspense and I would miss certain of the secondary characters, specifically Charles and Morris. I'm also a huge Peabody fan. It's nice to have a female character who isn't gorgeous and slim - every single other female character (e.g Nadine, Louise, Mavis, Reo) is. Variety is good. Flaws are good. And these books just don't seem to have that any more. Everyone seems...stuck.

Yes, these comments (I wouldn't call it a review) is probably bordering on snarky. But...when you're in pain you're snarky! And...I don't like perfect characters. Will I read Treachery In Death? Probably, but not for a while.

Oh, and I don't know what was going on with the formatting in my (library) copy of this book, but there were hard returns in some very weird places, including in the middle of sentences.