My sister said that she swallowed 5 of these books at once, and that it felt more literary....I've read literary and it didn't feel like this. =/ I think this is more a problem of the writing style not suiting my tastes rather than the book being poorly written. It felt meandering, with many stream-of-consciousness side tangents, and as a result, I could feel how much of a slog it was to investigate the murders. While this may be true to life, it doesn't really make my lunch breaks go any quicker. 
 So overall, not bad, but not very sticky.