A naked, murdered girl with gold on her hands and a four-winged tattoo on the back of her shoulder. A man whose wife can only believe that he has been kidnapped. A relationship that wearies of itself.

It feels both like the author is coming into himself and breaking out of the mold of the first nine books, and not quite there with whatever it is that he learned. He definitely didn't decide to go back to the repeated plot from the earlier books. The plot here is more exploratory, a version of the detective-follows-a-string-of-clues-through-the-labyrinth plot that you see in other mysteries, but somehow different. I'll have to see where this goes.

I continue to listen to the series on audio, which remains excellent.