The beginning was actually quite amusing...mainly because it was so full of clichees: workaholic DI with traumatic past, serious relationship-issues, lots of flashbacks to his traumatic past, trouble with his boss, a traumatic past, trouble with his family his boss his colleagues...eh did I mention the traumatic past?But then it got confusing: dozends of people, many of them Wagstaffe's colleagues with similar-sounding names and all quite dull and one-dimensional, which doesn't really help.Besides the author seems a bit too ambitious and in the end most of the plotlines just get don't get a satisfactory conclusion.