I’ve read up to book 35 in this series and the odd one after that (I’m working my way through a full re-read) so I don’t know if I have missed anyway some slight changes in format before this one. I was surprised that Roarke didn’t show up until a full quarter of the way through and after that took quite a backseat in proceedings. There was a little bit of his technical wizardry but otherwise he felt more of a secondary character in this one.

That’s not a bad thing though. I enjoyed seeing the team work as a team without too much reliance on his IT skills and also a more prominent role of Jenkinson & Reineke and some of the other crime lab staff. They may have been in quite a bit before but I’ve yet to get to that in my re-read. So that was quite a nice little change of pace & keeps the series fresh.

Eve is on the hunt for someone who has killed and also abducted 2 others so it’s a race against time to find him/her before anything happens to the women. She’s also trying to track down a women from 50 years earlier with no name and only a tattoo to identify her. Yeah good luck with that. But if you’ve read the books, you know the team skills and nothing is impossible. Plenty of twists and turns as you’d expect and I think I missed a plot point somewhere so the end result took me by surprise (I’ll be extra vigilant on my re-read!). I love this series, it’s one of my favourites and this one doesn’t disappoint