The last book in the Inspector Ramsay series. It's a doozy. I thought it was great but in the end the series feels unfinished. I wish we had more books that followed Ramsay, Hunter, and Prue. This one had an ending I did not see coming. I honestly thought the guilty party was someone (I was partially kind of right, but missed the boat). And again, it's great to see the lessons that Ramsay has learned through his first marriage and the first case we met him on still impacting him.

"The Baby-Snatcher" has two starts in a way. The book starts in September with a young girl named Marilyn coming to Ramsay's home for help. Her mother has gone missing. Ramsay has seen the young girl and her mother often walking together and wonders where her mother could have gone. When they return to Marilyn's home, her mother is there, but frozen in expression. Ramsay wonders what could have occurred, but leaves them. Almost a year later the woman goes missing again, but then is found in the water, dead, stabbed to death. Ramsay and Hunter investigate this case and wonder if it has any ties to some man snatching up young boys in the area. The man doesn't hurt them, but takes them away and gives them candy and releases them. The book takes a lot of twists and turns. 

Ramsay is quite good in this one. I think though we get to see Hunter and now Sal growing up a bit more and realizing that they jump to conclusions. They often want Ramsay to run in and arrest someone and he refuses to do so. As other reviewers said, you get to see how well Cleeves has come from the first book to the last in this series. She does a great job of developing everyone. And you get some of Hunter's contempt for the "common people" that seems similar to how some of her other police characters feel in her other series.

The dialogue and the reasoning with some of these characters is a lot. Cleeves does a great job of showing so many things in this book that really come around to love and how so many people in this book are desperate to have it no matter the cost.

The flow stayed very good up until almost the end when the book drags a bit. 

I do have to say the solution to this one was clever. But the book ends a bit abruptly I thought. If there was another book in the series I would not have noticed it as much.