Very interesting book and it pulled me in from the start. I'm not going to lie,when alot of the doctor lingo was going on most of it went over my head but I got the general idea from it. I wish they wouldn't have rushed one of the main events. I know they were trying to show how easy it was done but there was so much build up for it to happen in 1 -2 paragraphs.

One of Greg Ile's most recent writes. Really easy to get into and couldn't put it down once I started. Murder mystery/suspense/thriller. Overall it was one of his cleanest, least controversial yet enjoyable reads. I enjoyed the medical storyline from which I learned a lot of interesting info about disease pathology in addition to the entertainment.

I loved this. It was a little long, but a great story - wonderful beach read. Best one of this trip.

Creepy.

3.5

I read this on a patron's recommendation. Not my style. The story was choppy, with too many references to other books (or maybe just weirdly disjointed sentences/paragraphs suck in to explain a weird turn in the narrative). The characters were stereotypical: evil, rich and calculating, beautiful but dumb, etc. I finished it because the plot, although full of holes, did have a couple twists and I was interested in the resolution.

I would recommend this book to someone who has read every James Patterson and doesn't like authors like Tana French.

I was surprised to see the high ratings this book has received. I found it to have a preposterous storyline with a whole host of unbelievable characters. I kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. I will not be reading another Iles book.

This book rocked my socks!

Exciting from beginning to end, I could not put it down. In two nights I read 400 pages and that is rare for me. The plot was exciting, the characters were likeable, and there was just enough far-fetched (but still plausible) stuff going on to make it one of my favorites.

Greg Iles has been one of my favorite authors for a long time and with the exception of The Footprints of God, has never let me down when I need an escape. He crafts his characters so expertly, I wish they were real so I could meet them.

The premise of this book is this: an avaricious divorce lawyer teams up with an uber-creepy pathologist/hematologist to kill people by giving them cancer or otherwise making it look like natural causes. Meanwhile, the spouses who hired them are shelling over millions for the services rendered, because it's still cheaper than giving their ex-spouse half in the divorce.

Enter Special Agent Alex Morse. While it irritates me that it seems to be a growing trend to make all heroines have "boy" names (maybe I just like to think I'm an original - ha!), Alex is a great character. She has issues, real issues. Her father was just killed in a robbery. Her mother's dying of ovarian cancer. Her sister just died of a stroke and told Alex on her deathbed that her husband killed her. With a little digging, Alex discovers who's next on the list - country doctor and all-around good guy, Dr. Chris Shepard.

The thing I love most about Iles' books are that things don't always end neatly. The protagonists, in this case, do not end up together outright at the end, but it's hinted that they soon will be. The characters' scars remain and in this world of happy endings, that's refreshing.

Terrific book!

Just finished the audiobook and I apparently read this in 2008. I have no memory of that or of the story. Reread January 2017.

Good story, entertaining