Patrick is a lord of language, as he was in the previous novel.

This novel takes a darker turn than previous novels in the series.

Set one year after the previous novel, Easy is no longer working a day job and does detective work full-time.

At 742 pages it is substantially longer than her previous novels.

Of course it also helped that her previous novel was a best seller.

The story commences 272 years after the events in the previous novel.

It has the same principal characters as their previous novels.

This love was foreshadowed at the end of the previous novel.

Many of the characters in the book will be familiar to those who have read his previous novels.

The book begins hours after the end of the previous novel.