The Monster in the Box
Yesterday I returned this book, unfinished, to the library. I was reall disappointed, usually I love Ruth Rendel's Inspector Wexford books, but this one just didn't grab me at all. It kept going back and forth between an incident maybe 20 years ago or more, to the present day, and although it seemed to be trying to get the reader fascinated with a sinisterly written bad guy, it just didn't work for me. Neither did the parts of that talking about Wexford as a young man. Yawn.....
The good news is that I'm now reading Deborah Crombie's latest, Necessary as Blood and finding it very good. The only downside so far is that her last book was out so long ago, in my time frame, that I'm having some trouble remembering it, and she's using characters from it, and what happened then, as references in the current book. Uh, Deborah, lots of us just don't remember that far back... rotflmao Seriously, though, I'm liking it a lot so far.
The good news is that I'm now reading Deborah Crombie's latest, Necessary as Blood and finding it very good. The only downside so far is that her last book was out so long ago, in my time frame, that I'm having some trouble remembering it, and she's using characters from it, and what happened then, as references in the current book. Uh, Deborah, lots of us just don't remember that far back... rotflmao Seriously, though, I'm liking it a lot so far.
