Thanks so much for the wonderful feedback!
Definitely looking at doing something longer next time around. We wanted to do something shorter & snappier in this first one, more in line with the pacing of older crime fiction (I've read a lot of Lawrence Block, haha) and wanted to do similar pacing which I think doesn't quite like up with the medium.
Keeping our paws crossed for much bigger next time. Monstrous even.
-Kaiju