Originally I thought the plot was interesting -- a woman falls from a building and somehow lives, but then her body disappears on the way to the hospital. But from the start the gratuitous language and sex was a put off. There seemed to be less of that as the book moved along, but then the plot got ridiculous. While Barrington was working on the disappearing reporter case, the police department was working on two serial killer cases. After Barrington was kicked off the force, he just happened to solve both of those -- both of them involving people connected with the reporter case. Plus the cases he was working on for the law firm all tied into the reporter case. And then his girlfriend turns out to be the murderer. Just a ridiculous number of coincidences. I was looking for a new book series to read. This is NOT it.