boring - Rated 
I bought this book at the airport because I have read others featuring Alex Delaware and always enjoyed them. It's difficult for a crime novel to be boring if it's reasonably well written, but this one manages it. Big disappointment.
Not as good as some - still a page turner - Rated 
I have enjoyed reading Kellerman's novels about police-involved psychologist Alex Delaware, he manages to write page turners with interesting plotting, good twists, interesting characters, and a lot of engaging description of people and places. Sadly, this isn't one of his best. There is more predictability in the plot, even if it does move along engrossingly. The characters are getting a little bit stale, and the latest swing in Delware's roller-coaster love-life is signalled with all the subtlety of the proverbial sledgehammer. That's not to say it's not a good read - it is. It's just not up to his usual standard, and that's disappointing. Mind, you I still stayed up late to finish it!
Psycho - Rated 
A rather formulaic cops and robbers book, part of an ongoing series featuring a psychiatrist who uses his skills to assist the police in solving serious crimes. Not the most original premise for a crime thriller, but the author's genuine knowledge of the subject is obvious, and well used.
The book opens with a description of a crime committed several years before. To UK readers, the murder described seems horribly familiar, two young boys abduct a toddler from a shopping mall and tragedy results. An infamous case from Merseyside is inevitably evoked. This introductory part is the strongest of the whole book.
The plot quickly becomes extremely far fetched as the events move to the present.
By the time the story closes, we have entered "Death Wish" territory, and reality has been left far behind.
A more interesting work would have been a fictionalised account of a psychiatrist investigating a senseless murder of an innocent child by two other youngsters. But,to be fair, this would have been a very difficult read indeed.
Tedious and boring - Rated
I have followed the Delaware/Sturgis books from the start of the series and have started to find that I am enjoying them less and less. The constant brain storming of ideas is getting increasingly tedious and ridiculous. I find it difficult to believe that Milo would have so much time to sit around discussing outlandish possibilites.
This particular book has a storyline that starts promisingly and then seems to go nowhere very slowly. I found it rather boring and the end was unsatisfactory and gave the impression the author didn't know how to finish it.
As far as Robin goes - am I the only person who is sick to death of her and would like her to disappear from the books forever?
Not the best - Rated
Kellerman is always deficient in action scenes but compensates here by a surprisingly gripping read despite a substandard plot. It does drag a bit in places and the ambiguous ending is hardly satisfactory.
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