I kept waiting for the two story lines to merge and they never did. There was no real detective work, and what there was was sloppy. This needed some serious editing and rewriting. The characters were stereotypes and the dialogue stilted. At least she didn't make the people in East Tennessee into brainless hillbillies. The touchy-feely relationships made me want to gag, and this seemed to be more a romance novel that just happened to have a crime in it. The sudden wedding of Miles and Katie made no sense, and there was no passion in it. This is the first and last Coulter novel for me. It was certainly easy to read (skim) and is best suited to people with low reading skills and bad taste.