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This is a hugely entertaining (meta-)mystery for mystery lovers. Twists and mystery trivia abound. The book is full of all the classic mystery cliches, but in a good way: it's conscious of the fact, and does so very deliberately. Many of the characters are mystery buffs themselves, and keep discussing authors, books, locked room tricks and great detectives, even as they themselves are in the middle of a murder mystery.
I half-guessed two of the major twists, but this didn't diminish my enjoyment in the slightest. The book is good fun. Don't expect great literature, but you can definitely expect to be entertained. This is a classic mystery, and at the same time a love song to classic mysteries.
Language-wise it wasn't difficult. There was some specialized vocabulary and many author names and book titles, but there is also a lot of dialogue, and things tend to get repeated and (over)explained. If I have a minor quibble with the book, it's that there's some needless repetition (not to the point of getting boring or annoying) without which the book could easily have been shorter without removing anything. But even at 500 pages, it still goes by fast.