I went into this book with low expectations and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. I'm just starting to read some of these detective/mystery/police procedural novels because my dad thinks I should write one. Ha! He's never given up on rooting for a career that I now think I will never have (as a writer). It's very sweet. Anyway, I think this book was pretty intelligent and drew attention to some issues that might not make it into other novels of this type (prison abuse, domestic help, illegal immigration etc.) . I will read another in the series at some point.