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I've tried to finish this book three times, and keep giving up. I started reading Kellerman's books back in the late Eighties or early Nineties, when I was just a wee lass starting college. I was enthralled by Alex's psychological insight and Milo's empathy, contrasted against the noir and gritty realism. I am and have always been a character-oriented reader, but was impressed by his careful-if-sometimes-too-coincidental plotting. I stuck with Alex through his relationship difficulties with Robin, his morphing from clinician to forensic specialist, and the very gradual shifts away from the relationship-oriented writing that resonated even in the most outlandish scenarios. So this book may be the end of my tagging along with the guys. I don't get any sense that Alex is interested any longer in the human side of the victim or potential suspects. There's just a pervasive, overwhelming feeling of apathy, contempt, fatigue, and resentment from Alex and Milo. I get enough of that from real life and reading the NYT and WaPo. I don't need it in my fiction-life as well. And finally--this is a long-standing pet peeve--I have to say that Robin's eagerness to just drop her panties at a second's notice for this guy, book after book, is not realistic and frankly a little annoying. No one is that hot. She has become the epitome of a one-dimensional character., and he could have done so much more to develop her.