This was a huge disappointment for me. This entire book fell flat, except for the ending and the overall writing style. The characters did not work for me. The main character was flat; she had no personality. Her only perosnality trait was being an alcoholic. The alcoholic representation was good, in my opinion, but I am not an addict so I cannot say for sure. But the main character just made it her only personality trait and it got boring. This book was about 150 pages too long. I found myself getting so bored, which is crazy considereing the details of the crime in the book. But there was just so many unneccessary plot points and repeated story lines that I found myself gettin annoyed at the plot. The list thirty or so pages I ended up really liking becasue it was action packed. But the rest of the book did not match. Overall, this mystery had an interesting plot but not much else to it.