Oh it’s fun picking up an author you love but haven’t read much of for ages. I devoured all the Sharon McCone stories years ago and also read the three Elena Oliverez books but I only read one of the Joanna Stark mysteries. The one I read was the third of three and I didn’t much enjoy it at the time. This is the first of those stories and it’s not as good as a McCone and there are bits of the San Francisco/stolen painting plot that I find a bit weak but I did really enjoy curling up with the book and whizzing through it and meeting a new character of Muller’s.

My plan is to get hold of the second book in the series and then reread Dark Star to see what I think second time around. I think these books might make more sense as a trilogy than as one offs.