Told in the first person, this story jumps straight in with Seb reading the papers and showing us glimpses into his grandfather’s murky life.  There is always something going on in this book, but I felt that a third person viewpoint might have enhanced the telling even more.  Somehow it is hard to feel anything for Seb, a chilly character who failed to engage my sympathies and this had a dampening effect on the otherwise fascinating and tortuous plot.  The inventive and clever story is the book’s main strength, and after a while I found that the events overtook my interest and I got sucked into the tale.  If you like a strongly plot-driven novel that keeps surprising you—and most whodunit readers surely do—then you might enjoy this ingenious mystery.