The novel starts out very promising, but as the plot unfolded it felt lacking a bit, and I found the conclusion to be rather bland. The strongest point is the overarching plot related to corruption surrounding the Tom Waaler character introduced in the Redbreast which, I assume, will evolve over the next novel or two.

I'd chalk this up to this being one of the earlier books in the series, but considering it follows the stellar Redbreast novel, this can't really be the case.