Tracy Sherlock of the
Vancouver Sun opined that fans "will not be disappointed" and that the novel "shows Banks as both a vulnerable and infallible human and as a brilliant, instinctive investigator."
Jack Batten of the
Toronto Star wrote that Robinson "does a brilliant job with these conversations, gradually separating the dodgy liars from the honest truth-speakers and nudging the story toward a solution that is both logical and tantalizing." Peter Robb of the
Ottawa Citizen wrote that while the novel is "worth reading", he had "liked other volumes better than this one." ==References==