I enjoyed this one more than the first two Morse-novels. There's not as much drinking in this book (now I know that it's part of Morse's character to drink a bit too much but especially in the first book it felt like everytime Dexter didn't know what to write now he added a line about Morse going to the pub, now there's still the sense that Morse drinks a bit more than is healthy without it getting mentioned every chapter) and while there's still lots of red herrings they're no longer thrown out and two paragraphs later unmasked as false leads as it happened especially in the 2nd novel.