The book has a straight-line plot. The author's style is simple and straight forward. The author's intent is to entertain. The background is minimal and does not affect the atmosphere. The focus of story is on action, situations, and events.
Characterization focuses on several characters of different sexes whose lives are intertwined.
The book will leave you feeling excited, cheerful, upbeat. The book is fanciful, entertaining, emotional, playful. The ending wraps everything up. Of course there's a hidden motive, and part of the trick is to figure out what happened to a gigantic tank of gasoline in the convention centre's basement. There's a separate case for some of the cops to handle involving a thieves' van that is able to disappear into thin air in an indoor parking garage.