Publisher's Weekly
Not on a par with The Summertime Soldiers or The Gemini Man, Kelly's third story brings back writer Liz Connors and her lover, detective Jack Lingmanne of Cambridge, Mass. As told by Liz, events strain belief and patience from the start, when she promises an anxious friend she will trace his troubled colleague, Bonnie Nordgren. The missing woman becomes a case for Jack when she's found dead of a massive drug injection. Since she suspects murder, Liz keeps investigating unofficially, questioning Bonnie's local associates and phoning her mother in North Carolina. (The attempt to imitate Mrs. Nordgren's Southern accent begs for firm editorial hand.) When someone also kills Bonnie's roommate, Liz entangles herself further in dicey doings until the hyped-up finale where she's defenseless against the unsuspected killer.

Library Journal
The involvement of freelance writer Elizabeth Conners and Cambridge Detective Lieutenant Jack Lingemann in the case of a missing blonde beauty springs from a rather creaky premise. Asked to look into the sudden disappearance of a woman requiring treatment for brain cancer, Elizabeth becomes suspect number one when police find the body. Her enquiries make her useful to the police and vice versa, since lover Jack works there. Despite an expected second murder and the requisite close call, justice triumphs. Predictable fare for series fans. REK