I love both this series and the Lucas Davenport series, although I will agree with Virgil that the whole "that fuckin' Flowers" thing is getting old. As is Lucas constantly telling Virgil that he "better not be pulling his boat" but then always ends up telling him to go fishing to think on the case anyway. It's supposed to be funny, I know, but it got old old and tiresome to read those exchanges really fast, especially since I'm reading this series in publication order and now that Virgil was introduced, he shows up in Lucas's novels as well so I can't even get a reprieve in those books.

But other than that, I loved this one. It was yet again another riveting case and I did not want to put it down. I enjoyed reading more about Virgil's process when he solves cases, and his backstory. Although the humor is extremely outdated, but obviously this book was published in 2009 so I can't get too bent out of shape about it. It didn't subtract anything from the enjoyment of the book itself, I just didn't find any of the gay jokes funny. Never really have, but that's a personal thing.