I was pretty excited to start reading this. I won this and all of her other books in a contest from the publisher. Included, was a simple note card with her autograph.
I've read everything by her including the ebooks and YA books. I started with Monday Mourning and was just astounded. At the end of every chapter Reichs has this ability to end it with some bombshell that you CAN'T go to bed until you've read more.
After that book I started at the beginning, with her first book and devoured everything.
She knows how to keep a reader engaged and reading more.

This book? Not so much. It was pretty disappointing. I was discussing it with my wife and she offered that maybe it was a ghost writer. Initially, I dismissed it. But by the end of the book I decided something was certainly off. Maybe it was a ghost writer. Maybe she was too busy with other things and just phoned this in. Tempe and Ryan are smart. But ***SPOILERS*** after Ryan is hit by a car, they later conclude that she was the target (Isn't she always?). So now they are trying to figure out what case she could be working on that would garner a death threat.
She's an experienced "crime fighter" and he's this super great detective.
So they are going through her cases, the most mundane of mundane. When it suddenly hits them! And they look at each other at the same time! Golly gee, Wally! It's the serial killer!
I actually said out loud "Are you f'ing kidding me?"
In addition was the smart aleck banter between the two. I don't mind the banter. The quips and comebacks are good. But Jesus H. Christ. EVERYBODY was doing it and it was very old very fast.

While reading this, I saw her advertisement on FB for her new book coming out this year. I will buy it, I will read it, because I'm a fan. But if that one turns out like this one, I might pass on the next one.
This was not the fiction she has written for adults in the past. This was written for more young adult readers.