I remember not liking the first book in this series, perhaps to the point that I didn't even finish it, but decided I've give this one a shot. This one is better than the first (I actually finished it), and is just good enough that I'll read another book in the series. This is far from the best romantic suspense series out there -- the romance builds a little too quickly with not enough chemistry between the two, there are a lot of inexplicably angry people in their lives, cases are solved as quickly as a one hour TV drama -- but it scratched the itch for me.