It was good. The interpersonal relationships were everything one comes to expect from Linda Howard, and they were spectacular. The murder part of it, though, for once, didn't seem to flow or have meaning for some reason. There never was sufficient tension, or any explained reasoning as to why the culprit did it, even after they discovered who it was. I love Linda Howard's work, but this one book was definitely not something I'd go out of my way to read again. :/