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I had been sad that this series is ending, but after reading this book I feel like it's time for it to go. I've read all the others and was looking forward to the latest installment. I did not, however, enjoy this book. It was dreary and repetitious. The flashback chapters added nothing and I was particularly unhappy that Sue Grafton chose to repeat over and over the graphic content of a tape of sexual abuse. Every time a new person views the tape it gets described, in addition to detailing the actual event in the flashback chapters. There was no justification for this. I found myself skimming large sections of the book just to get through. Also, Kinsey seems awfully stupid in this book. There's a long list of things she didn't think of, notice, or do. I mean, I came up with more ideas, and I'm not a (supposedly) hotshot detective. She just keeps shuffling her index cards, totally clueless. Summing up: unsympathetic characters in an unappealing book in a formerly beloved series.