We start with Leigh Rappaport sure she is being stalked. She was in a parking garage in a neighborhood she never should have gone into, even to meet a no show client. Before she knows it she is being held by someone who it turns out ends up saving her life, in a very crude but effective way. The next time she meets this man he is walking into her office. Nick Montera is a murder suspect and psychologist Leigh is tasked with evaluating him for the state. She gets to know Nick as well as possible for someone to know Nick. He is a product of his environment and has a few sharp edges and angles that are both tantalizing and a bit scary at times. In the end Leigh gets more involved than she felt comfortable with to be objective for the state and takes herself off the case. She still figures into the trial and Nick takes a chance that Leigh meets, to Nick's relief. The murderer is found but this puts Leigh in jeopardy, and who it turns out to be is quite a surprise to her when she finds out.
I did enjoy this book and was not put off by the hard edges that Nick has on his character. There was a troubling aspect toward the end where, when reading, all the evidence indicates something happened but it is brushed off as having not taken place at all. I would also have liked to have Nick's feelings more fully explained. While we know by his actions probably exactly what he is feeling the book mimics the character in that he remains something of an enigma. Like I said,. I did enjoy the book but I was left with a feeling of having things not quite totally finished. It seems that you learn who the murderer is and then the emotion of the h and H jumps into something a little to fully, or quickly, that has more depth and had just started. 
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Use the talents you have, for the woods would by silent if no birds sang except the best. (from a flip inspiration book-'Thoughts for my daughter')
