Not in the Flesh - Ruth Rendell

Hardback version cost £7.99 from the book club. Inspector Wexford is the protagonist in Ruth Rendells series of crime novels. This one sees him investigating a double murder near a small English village. The fly leaf does not give much of the plot away, a body is found in a field and then another turns up in a house not far away. If you are looking for a detective who has ambitions that include the next lady he can hop in to bed with or a hero who spends every spare minute fighting or shooting it out with the bad guys you will not find it in Rendells Wexford novels. Wexford is a plain English detective who plods his way through the scene of the crime in a ...  Read the complete review