I was intrigued by the story, so I kept reading, but throughout the book I kept wondering why the author felt the need to keep making value judgments about book dealers, thieves, and Gilkey specifically. His actions and comments pretty much speak for themselves.

Toward the end, I guess it becomes a bit clear that the author played a larger part of the story than perhaps she was comfortable with, which might explain why her opinions were as frequent as her observations throughout the book... but overall I kind of felt like I was reading a decent magazine article that had been dragged out to book length for no particularly good reason.