This is exactly the sort of book that I normally love but there was something missing here. I finished it but the ending didn’t come as a huge surprise and there was just something a bit “thin” about it. I can’t quite point to what except that unusually for a murder mystery nothing much happens. There are some nice bits of writing and some wry turns of phrase, but it wasn’t quite enough to keep me truly interested.

In short it was just a bit flat.