Sentence:  C. C. Finlay's marvelous book "Patriot Witch", the first in his Traitor to the Crown Series, is a beautiful example of a novel that inserts necessary <WSD>neepery</WSD> without bogging down the story. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Trivia or highly-detailed information, especially that which an author includes in a work of fiction as a result of research.