Honestly while the detail about the setting up of the cruise ship is somewhat important when it comes to the murderer by the time he was murdered I really had a hankering to see how he was going to die and it did create a lot of suspects. It was full of contract negotiations and complicated lives and I had to almost force myself to pick it up to see when it was going to happen. There was also a shocking lack of jurisdictional issues when someone went missing and was noticed missing in Irish Waters but was suspected to have gone missing in Northern Ireland. Now that could have been a tangle... There was also nothing about having a gambling ship deal with the murky waters of Irish Law as well as British Law.
I wanted him dead and he did get killed and then unravelling the plot was the meat of the book, I just wish there had been less bread in the sandwich and more meat. ( )