I have read all of Catherine Coulter's books and have enjoyed most all of them. This is the first book of any author that has prompted me to write a review. Do not waste your money on this book! If you feel you must read it, go to the library. Ms. Coulter must have been under a tremendous deadline to have gotten this book; with it's juvenile dialogue and ridiculous plots, through her editor. I just finished the book and am still shaking my head. What was she thinking?

Catherine Coulter, either needs to become a romance writer or a mystery writer, but she tries to combine the two, and it doesn't work. I would not reccommend this book to anyone that likes a well written mystery, but would reccommend it to those that enjoy a book that has unrequited love, 9 unsuccessful murder attempts, and foolish unbelievable FBI agents.

At first as I was attempting to read Hemlock Bay, I thought I was just allowing other things to distract me and therefore causing me to lose the flow of the book. I kept reminding myself of how much I had enjoyed reading every other Catherine Coulter book - especially the suspense series involving the FBI characters. But, I finally had to admit, that this one was just not up to Coulter's usual style. Hopefully, she will put this one behind her, and return to her usual style.I'm still wondering about those "Ghouls" and Tammy or was it Timmy's acts of illusions!

I'm really glad I read the other 5 in this series before I got to this one. Chances are that if I hadn't I would not have bothered to go back and read the others. The characters personalities seemed very childish to me in this book. I didn't feel that a lot of effort and thought went into it.

What a waste of time and money. This is one of maybe 5 books I've refused to finish in my life. It's disconnected, scenes are not realistic, feel completely false, and nothing about it kept my interest. The editing is very sloppy, in one place, after the evil Tammy has her arm amputated and escapes from the hospital to murder again, Ms. Coulter has her "rubbing her bloody hands together". Maybe it was a misprint, is should have had her "rubbing her bloody HAND together", being as she only had one. Immediately following was an unbelievable interaction between Savitch's sister, an art dealer, and an art forger. That did it. I closed it up.

I paid full price for this hardcover book and feel must warn others who have read/liked other Catherine Coulter novels. There is no way to say this nicely...THIS BOOK IS AWFUL! The dialogue is stilted, the plots (there are two) are so far fetched as to be unbelievable and there is no character development. Even the physical discriptions of her recurring characters are inconsistent with the previous novels. Don't waste your time or your money.