Ruth Rendall’s Not in the Flesh [ISBN 978 0 09 951722 1] is such a pleasant surprise to read after a number of reads I can only call gross (just finished Stuart McBride’s Flesh something or other and I wouldn’t even want to write about it). However, Not in the Flesh could be described as tastefully gruesome but the straightforward narrative is a pleasure to read, even though Wexford and his supercilious sidekick Burden can appear less than on the ball.
Ruth Rendall’s Not in the Flesh [ISBN 978 0 09 951722 1] is such a pleasant surprise to read after a number of reads I can only call gross (just finished Stuart McBride’s Flesh something or other and I wouldn’t even want to write about it). However, Not in the Flesh could be described as tastefully gruesome but the straightforward narrative is a pleasure to read, even though Wexford and his supercilious sidekick Burden can appear less than on the ball.
A body is unearthed in ground surrounding an abandoned house by a dog, and Wexford is informed that the body has been there for over ten years. As they rty to find out who the dead person was, they then also find out that there is another body in the abandoned house (why didn’t anyone think of looking we wonder). There are lots of suspects living in houses near the abandoned plot – it appears that some of them may have been involved in one or other of the murders.
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