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So I'm 2/3rds of the way into Gnomon by Nick Harkaway and it continues to be outstanding. Jere Genest, I think you'll really love this one. Here's a sample quote, and the book is full of great lines like this:

"Poetry is a shotgun aimed at our shared experience, hoping to hit enough of the target that we all infer a great bulk of information conveyed as implication and metaphor in an approximately similar way. Making a unity between poet and reader.”

and this one, which is less lofty, but which I rather like:

“I’ll take that one,” she says, pointing, and at the same time picks up some light paper, a box of soft pencils and a hard steel clipboard debossed with the head of Oliver Cromwell on a spike. The sales assistant is very keen to sell her a lucite one instead, but the Mohs scale of hardness awards acrylic glass no more than a four, as against steel’s five or six, so the Inspector demurs, wishing the shop’s inventory stretched to products in tungsten carbide."