content: I got this book because I so enjoyed "The Devil's Waters," the first Robbins book I read. However, "Assassins" doesn't seem to be anything like "Waters" and starts out very darkly with the macabre murders of two civil defense volunteers in New England. I started it, then stopped and read another WWII mystery, "Billy Boyle," then came back to it. I'm still not finished. One thing that drives me nuts as an editor is that he repeatedly uses the phrase, "alright," instead of the grammatically correct "all right."