There were a couple of times I thought I knew where you were going next and you surprised me. As someone who has read mysteries almost exclusively for many years, that isn't easy. In fact, nothing will make me put a book down unfinished like a predictable plot twist.

I thought your use of foreshadowing was appropriately subtle in places and more obvious in places where you wanted your reader to know something was about to happen. If this were a movie instead of a book, I would say you scored it perfectly.

Your description in settings and people were well-blanced-enough to give me a solid idea of what I was looking at but not so much that I couldn't use my imagination.  Another thing I hate - having everything so laid out that there's no room to see it through my own lens. For God's sake, don't ever tell me everything and how I'm supposed to feel about it or there's no joy in reading.

And the ending...

I loved the ending. You can probably tell by now that I hate a nice, pretty, neat ending that explains everything. If I wanted that, I'd watch reruns of The Love Boat instead of reading a book. You answered just enough but also acknowledged that some things were unsatisfactory and others are unknowable.  And yet, you threw in some hope in the relationship of Jackson and Maggie.

You left me looking forward to the next Jackson Gamble Book!