Deeply satisfying in that the other potential male leads DID get called out, proving that good looks and intelligence is no guarantee of strength of character. I can tell what the author is trying to do but I'm still not sold on the chemistry between the main male lead and female lead.
Case itself was great. Same issue with execution of writing as volume 2 (the editor really needs to do better) and the being reminded of how attractive everyone is all the time (though less egregious than vol 2).
Overall, I think my favorite thing about this series would be that, while in so many lady detective books the female lead would be shown to rely heavily on a male mentor to point her in the right direction or provide her with a vital clue, in THIS book the male official detective is a bumbling Watson with the hobbies of BBC's Sherlock, while the acknowledged hypercompetent male partner with the photographic memory frequently says things like, "Yeah, I guessed the gist of it, but I have no idea about the details or the evidence so you'll have to wait for her (the female lead) to explain". Also she cries a lot but gets more things done than anybody else in the book -- a good reminder that tears do not equal incompetence.