Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye for Readers' Favorite

From the beginning of this book, I was impressed with the good storyline and looked forward to hearing the rest of the tale. The reading by Richard M. Davidson is well-done, and I liked the tone of his voice.

However, although I can tolerate three or even four bad words, as the book progressed they became so frequent that they got in the way of the story. Some of them even seem forced and not relevant to the situation. In the end chapters it gave the impression that everyone was swearing. I have a problem with authors who don’t know how to convey feelings without resorting to swearing.

That said, I would have loved the story and its execution if it weren’t for the problem explained above. The plot is great, the characters well-described and likable. The tension is well-expressed and the story well-developed.

McCaleb, an ex-FBI profiler, has retired from the force after a heart transplant to save his live. Now after three years he is married and has adopted the son of his sister-in-law who died years before. One of his colleagues finds herself stumped by a murder that soon will become too old to solve, so she recruits his help. In an attempt to follow his wife’s desires and his new responsibilities as a father of a baby girl, he struggles to not get tangled in the case. Yet he knows that when his colleague leaves the case binder with him, it implies he has accepted the case. Besides, profiling is in his blood and he is good at it.

When he finally decides he must help, his profiling of the suspect of this crime sends him on a collision course with an acquaintance of his, a cop named Bosch. Has this cop turned into an avenging angel or is there something he is missing? What does an artist who has been dead for 400 years have to do with the killing?

While the listening is engaging, I would have to recommend this book to adults only. There is explicit talk of female sexual body parts and sexual masturbation during the trial and far too much swearing.