William Boyd’s Waiting For Sunrise starts out with a description of Vienna, but you can’t tell through all the verbiage what kind of novel it is. It could be a romance or an historical novel. There’s nothing in the first few paragraphs to indicate that it’s a mystery or a thriller, which is apparently what it’s supposed to be. Something dire or suspenseful should happen in the very first sentence or at least the first paragraph. Instead the reader just waits and waits for some action. It contrasts with the Key to Rebecca. In that novel in the first line the last camel dies.[[ASIN:0451207793 The Key to Rebecca]]