This started really well, with a road trip to an interesting destination - the Slabs, near Salton Sea in California. The end, however, was a shocker, and not in a good way. I've said in reviews for previous books in this series that one of the reasons I like Kinsey is that she's practical, with a commonsense approach to her own safety - but here, her absolutely moronic decision-making almost gets her killed, and honestly: she would have deserved it. If you find a body in someone's back shed, with suspicions that there are more, you call the police instead of poking around for half an hour and putting yourself in a position where you're about to confront a killer and no one knows where you are. Admittedly, the killer's an ancient old man and can easily be defended against, but then there's the hitman after her and she blows that off too.

My only consolation is that she had a head injury early in the book, and this explains her subsequent behaviour. I'd say nice things about the violently practical Rochelle, except her inability to be that violently practical earlier on gets her brother killed, so you know what, this one's a dead loss. Use your brain, Kinsey. You're supposed to have one.