While I enjoyed the aspects of the book that dealt with Pendergast and D'Agosta working together to resolve the mystery, I felt the "true motive" of the killer to be quite... absurd? puzzling? strangely disconnected from the previous parts of the storyline? Perhaps it's a failing of my own; work has kept me from being able to read much over the last week or so, so I was not able to finish this book as quickly as the others I've read this year. Maybe I forgot little hints and clues that Preston and Childs left throughout over the days since I began this book.

Whatever the case, I don't believe I liked this one as much as their earlier works. As I'm only halfway through the Pendergast series, I'm sure they'll surprise me in the future.