Three young adults have been killed in a town south of Pittsburgh. Ben Stevenson is a pathologist that works for the Allegheny County Coroner's Office. He has the gruesome job of examining the bodies and then to report the findings. He notes: "People never look carefully at what's directly in front of them." Readers can probably guess who the killer is early on or half way through as the author gives hints along the way. While it flows well and is easy to read, the plot was on the slow side for me. ( )

Really enjoyed this book.But if you do not like some gory murders do not read this one. ( )

Wow! What a page-turner! This book had my crying by chapter 5. The story is chilling, gripping, and downright exciting. This is the first book from John Burley that I ever read, and it will certainly not be the last. ( )

Wintersville a sleepy town in Ohio, a brutally murdered teenager is discovered. Ben Stevenson the towns medical examiner, father of two tries to find the killer whilst keeping his family safe.

This book I found to be a very slightly below average thriller. The story itself was ok but was at times slow. There is lots of non important elements where I felt the author was perhaps trying to pad the story out.

The story had a few flaws with what I felt was one big one. Without giving anything away to anybody who may enjoy this book, I felt that the one big lead was right infront of Ben the whole time. Ben being the expert should have seen it.

I found myself skipping pages just to see who it was but by this time it didn't matter to me. The story was there but it was missing something to give it that pull. A very average read for me. ( )

Oh my gosh this book was bad. Really, really bad. We can start with the continuity error in the first chapter- unacceptable. Then we can move on to the dozens and dozens of peripheral characters. I didn't care about the main characters, let alone all these other people that were thrown in there for filler(?). The pace of this book was soooooo slow. And then we can go to the fact that the author is a doctor and so yes, ok, I get it, you know a lot about medical procedures but this was supposed to be a suspense novel, not a medical textbook. Not to mention, just say you took an aspirin it is not necessary for you to use the word analgesic. Oh yeah and the ending is predictable Ugh. What a complete and total waste of time. I REALLY want someone to investigate how these truly horrible books get all the big time authors' quotes on them saying how fantastic they are! In case I wasn't clear, hated it. ( )