Malice was an 'alright' holiday read however I found it to be overlong.Whereas normally I enjoy the twists and turns of a book of this type with this one I just wanted it to end. I did not feel an empahty with the characters,which I normally do with a Lisa Jackson Book, and this might have been why I did not enjoy it as much as others of hers I have read. My advice would be to keep my comments in mind but make up your own mind about whether it is for you or not we all look for different things in our books at different points in our reading life.