Only read half before giving up

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This is a novel about an imaginary area with wonderful vegetation and animals populated by vaguely humanoid creatures who have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing their subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. These Duendes have been granted the same rights and protections as all other peoples. Thus the traditional killing of the Duendes by residents is now illegal and Ben Ronson has been sent to investigate the murders. The more he investigates the more he unravels.
The prose is quite well written and the synopsis should have been appealing but I struggled to read half of the book before giving up. The characters did not engage me enough to care what happened to them. I am really disappointed as this could have been a marvellous book.