For the most part, I've enjoyed the Gin Blanco series, but this story wore very thin, very quickly. I realized a good way through the book that it was a bit of a rehashing of the Owen/Salina story, just with different characters. It did impart some new information about some of the major characters, but in longer running series, the author has to keep from letting things get too stale and this installment had things rather ho hum and same as previous stories. However, the book had a very interesting twist at the end which makes me refrain from abandoning the series completely.