Nothing like a psychiatric hospital for a murder setting. Of course, the motive turns out to be one of the classics, no mad axe murderers for James.
Dalgleish develops some. The suggested relationship with Deborah Riscoe from the first book (Cover Her Face) continues, but very tentatively. Let's see if she turns up in the next one. There is more development of his "Watson" - his detective sergeant, Martin. Somebody should do a study of the Scotland Yard detective sergeant in fiction - maybe I'll start taking notes. Would require some seriously enjoyable rereading, anyway. And what about the British detective sidekick in general: Bunter? Watson? Hastings? Do they have significant commonalities with the police detectives? Oh well, that for another day.
I found this one a little slow starting - but not as slow as the start of the first one. But once things picked up, they really picked up. I am anxious to revisit the third book.
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