She just can't do it anymore. She had one decent book back in the 70s, and her whole career has been one anticlimax after another since then. The characters here are one-dimensional and interchangeable: so much so that when I picked the book back up after going for a short walk, I'd forgotten who the main character was! The big question is, Why do they keep putting out her stuff? Even her biggest fans seem to have moved on. I know I have.