** spoiler alert ** I did find the overall story interesting and at times suspenseful.
There were a couple of items that bothered me enough though that by the time I read the end the book the story just became okay.
1. About mid book we determine that there might be a second killer working in the area as bones are found in a hog pen. However, by the end of the book these murder(s) are abruptly dropped.
2. We never truly know why the murderer actually kills his victims or what his wife's background is though it is implied that her back story might be an interesting one.Since our hero is a profiler I felt there should have been more explanation as to why this killer did what he did.
3. The chief deputy is so awful I ha difficulty believing he would ever have been hired much less maintained keeping his job.
4. This is personal on my part but I didn't buy the relationship between our heroine and hero. She had such a contentious relationship with her own father I kept thinking she was falling for the profiler as a daddy substitute. I found the relationship to be a little creepy actually.