Initial Impressions 4/29/12: Wow, this was quite the story! Very intense going back and forth from Jack's perspective and the killer's actual side of the story as the novel progresses. There was a lot of nice sarcastic humor in here as well as stupid puns to keep the reader laughing as well as a very gripping and grisly development of a serial killer, his personal fixation on Jack, and Jack's determination to bring justice. 
 Review as originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: I have to say that my first reaction was actually how violent this book was! Most of the "cozy" mysteries (which I thought this was more along the lines of a cozy before picking it up) don't go into grisly murder details. Granted I do read quite a bit of JD Robb's In Death books which get pretty gruesome, but I guess I just wasn't expecting it here. What made it more intense was that the chapters alternated between Jack's first person account of the events and the third person narrator telling the murder's side of the story. Little by little we actually gain clues about his real identity and why he chooses the women he murders. I think I just wasn't prepared for it to be so in depth from the killer's side and it brought a really personal and personally disturbing touch to the book. That being said, very interesting plot and I really liked how it was all tied together in the end. You know there's something to tie it all in and for it to make sense why this guy chooses his victims, but I like that you can't really guess what the answers are.