john_withers 's review for:

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
3.0
challenging dark emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Overall, I enjoyed the storyline.  However, the pace of much of the book was painfully slow.  There are a lot of details included in the story, but quite a few of them don’t contribute to the plot.  The book is overly long at 1100 pages in the ebook version I read.  This is overly long at 200 pages longer than the previous book in the series.  I believe tighter editing would have improved the overall pace.  One thing I particularly didn’t enjoy was the forced inclusion of dialects