A welcome return for Brendy McCusker… Charles crafts with such a careful eye on the sparks that can fly-some of them charming, some witty, some downright menacing-between characters who don’t happen to see eye to eye, or sometimes even to be operating in the same galaxy. Once again, it’s hard to resist a hero who realizes, He just had a habit of opening his mouth and not knowing what was going to come out. (Kirkus Reviews).

Charles’s skillful depiction of the many sides of love and its strange bypaths lifts this clever novel well above the genre average. - Publishers Weekly

Paul Charles is an outstanding author of crime fiction novels. They are models of character development and powerful observations of people the detectives meet. - Irish American News