Well... here we are at book 41 and, if you have yet to start the series, there's an awful lot to play catchup with. Me, I've been with this author since there was only 13 to catch up and I have to say it wasn't a chore at all...! So we start with Det. Milo Sturgis in a bit of a pickle as the evidence he followed at a pretty slam dunk murder scene led him down the wrong path and there are shenanigans and repercussions aplenty... He is so flummoxed that he turns to his great friend psychologist Alex Delaware to help dig him out of the hole. Meanwhile the two of them are called to a very different scene. That of an old woman who has been brutally murdered, cut up, and hidden in a chest freezer. The old woman turns out to be very well known to Milo but the search of her house is tricky as she has become somewhat of a hoarder since retiring. What they do find though, is a bunch of cash... And then when they try to find next of kin they realise that her daughter is missing and, although an adult in age, she is definitely classed as vulnerable. Whilst admittedly not the strongest book in the series, it nevertheless contained everything I need from a series book. Familiar characters all acting as they should - Milo and Alex obviously but also Robin, Blanche and all Milo's colleagues all play their parts well. And the episode characters were all as well drawn as they needed to be - obviously obfuscation held certain things back initially. The cases themselves were interesting and compelling and held my attention nicely all the way through, spitting me out at the end both satisfied and sad to be having to say goodbye to the characters I had just spent a few hours catching up with. All in all, although as already mentioned, not the strongest story but still a good solid read. Roll on next time.