Slow Motion Ghosts

I think maybe I need a new shelf for 'disappointing crime novels' as I seem to have read so many recently. Given Noon's admirable track record in science fiction I had high hopes for this but alas they were not to be fulfilled. Despite it's 400 or so pages it all just seems very sketchy, plot, characters, setting all very much underwritten. It's not just I didn't care what happened to the characters but that I could barely remember who they were from chapter to chapter. Adding to the mess there's a semi-detached subplot about a dodgy policeman thrown in for no apparent reason. Noon can and has done much better than this, maybe he should stick to the day job.