So - I found this book....I don't know... odd. As a crime book, I didn't like it at all! In terms of the crime, suspense. action and plot twists it was thoroughly boring and predictable. 
 The plot of the book is this: our protagonist Billy Graves is a NY City cop who works the nightwatch. He is part of a gang of four ex-cops who are tight friends twenty years after they used to work together. The opening crime is the stabbing of one of his friend's "white". A white is a perp who the cop knows did it but for whatever reason he managed to get away with it. 
 So even though this is the opening crime - it's not really the main crime, well it is the main crime, but it's not really given much book space. Because Billy is a night watch officer he really only see's a crime enough to do the preliminary stuff and then it gets passed onto the day detectives. Anyway, so the novel is littered with dozens of cases that Billy stumbles upon and then you never really see them resolved. But as Billy goes about his life you see that the White's for his other friends are also disappearing or being murdered. So there's that. 
 Then another aspect of the novel is you hear from our bad guy, Milton. He is stalking Billy's wife. 
 Basically the novel is made up of a lot about Billy's and Milton's personal lives and not much about the crimes. It's more a book about crime and punishment, the justice system, morality then a "crime" book. 
 The novel is also a lot more descriptive and lovely then you would expect from a "crime" book. The snippets of description of Billy's life - especially his feelings about his wife, father and children are really poignant. 
 She could never wear him out with her demands; there was something about her that made him want to be the best possible version of himself. He loved her, loved to come through for her, loved that what he had always thought of with embarrassment as his flat line personality, his bland stolidness, could become the rock in the raging sea of another soul's life. 
 The ending was, for me, completely lackluster. There was nothing unexpected, nothing shocking. I kept waiting for the novel to pick up - to go somewhere darker or deeper than what I expected but it never did. It wasn't bad - it just wasn't that good.