Over 600 pages of inter department shenanigans and police relationships with the press(spoiler; theycould be better). This is the meat in the sandwich. What would usually constitute the narrative of a more conventional thriller- a cold case of some fourteen years standing- is relegated to to the margins while the reader has to wade through an overdeveloped yarn about something that in essence, boils down to office politics.
If ever a book needed the hand of a good editor this is that book.