‘We need to move on’. No, seriously, we really do. Yes, you expect a crime novel to have some police procedure in them but not page upon page. I was going to originally give this four stars, but found large parts so boring that I nearly gave up, so down graded to three. I’m sure you could have removed about 200 pages that where not necessary, and just kept repeating itself, to keep the pace up,and my attention. (I took it to work to read on break and nearly fell asleep at the table!) My mum read it first and insisted I ‘stick with it, the endings worth it’. Was it worth it? Yes, but have lots of patience, plenty of coffee and don’t feel bad about skimming if you have to.