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The plot is often unrealistic. The idea that an investigator would allow a person awaiting trial for arson and a mental patient to participate in several murder investigations, that she would confide details of the investigations to these patients, and that she would allow a patient to be privy to the questioning of another patient strains credibility. It is also unlikely that a woman who has suffered a slashing would really set herself up as a decoy in order to capture someone who mutilated victims. Still, this reader "willingly suspended disbelief" because the characters are so well drawn and the sense of foreboding and of palpable evil are so strong. Katzenbach's vibrant dialogue, eye for detail, ability to describe the chaos of the hospital, and his unusual main character, Francis, who wanted "all [his] life…to be normal," stands the traditional detective story on its head and makes it work.Read full review
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