i just finished it last night. it is a great book. i was so into it i could hardly put it down. it is a murder mystery, and almost has a silence of the lambs feel to it, but not to the point that you would think they totaly bit the plot from silence of the lambs. i highly recomend it. and it is not super long, so you don't have to have a great deal of reading time everyday to have any hope of getting through it.