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Title: Great if you need a nap
Review: This glum book is about 6 times as long as it needs to be, and most of the denouement is telegraphed hundreds of pages in advance. Which would be okay if the writing were fun, but it isn't--in this case, "police procedural" means that you get to hear about every cigarette (different characters smoke different brands, isn't that fascinating?) and every cup of coffee or tea consumed in the course of a 37-year investigation. No joke! (And I do mean NO JOKES.) At the same time, you don't learn anything very interesting about the characters as people. I finished this book on a lo-o-ong flight and then began the other book I had with me, a P. D. James that's ostensibly the same genre as this one. But it was so refreshing to start a mystery where the sentences are full of intelligence, and the characters and situations full of surprises! I'd skip this one unless you're an awful insomniac.
