I tried with this one, I really did. I really, really tried to like or get into the latest offering from K.A. Tucker - He Will Be My Ruin, but it never panned out. 
 Here's the lowdown. In He Will Be My Ruin, we meet Maggie, who has come to New York to clean out the apartment of her closest friend, Celine, after her unexpected death. Celine's death has been ruled a suicide, but Maggie is not buying it and as such begins her own investigation into her friends death. Of course in the course of her detective work, Maggie learns things about Celine that she never knew leading her to question if she ever really knew Celine at all. Sounds interesting right? Unfortunately for me, it sounded way more interesting than it turned out to be. Why? 
 It was so freaking predictable it wasn't even funny. From the end of the first chapter, I already knew who did it, and from the next few chapters I had a pretty good idea why. I read the book all the way to the end to see if I was right in my early assumptions, and I was, which was a big disappointment for me. I like being surprised and thrown a curveball every now and then. Even the plot curveballs in He Will Be My Ruin were so telegraphed they were practically maps. 
 On top of all that, He Will Be My Ruin is full of a cast of unlikeable characters. I mean all of them, including the deceased Celine, are just so unlikeable it's insane. There was not one character that I could identify with or ended up liking. I hated them all, and it really ended up being a contest of who I dislike more. My most disliked character is Maggie, our protagonist, by the way. 
 All in all, He Will Be My Ruin by K.A. Tucker was not a very enjoyable book for me. While it wasn't 'I'm going to throw this book out the window' bad, it was nowhere near the best work K.A. Tucker has to offer.