Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Inspector Wexford Mystery) @ richardeward.com

Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Inspector Wexford Mystery)
by Ruth Rendell
from Crown

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• vintage
  It had been some time since I'd read a Ruth Rendell or a Barbara Vine (she is so prolific I get mixed up - which have I read yet and which haven't I)? I thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to go back now and catch up with a few books I know I've missed.
  This book was all the more enjoyable to me because the much-ballyhooed book I'd brought with me to read on vacation in the Netherlands was a huge disappointment...overwritten and boring. So I was forced to scour the English-language shelves of the... more info

• In the Flesh
  You can't go wrong with a Ruth Rendell novel. The Inspector Wexford stories are first rate.

• Excellent
  What a shame that another reviewer did not bother to read Rendell's account of female genital mutilation as written in this book. It is well-known in the UK that Baroness Rendell is a long term campaigner against the practice. In this book she introduces the subject in an enormously sensitive way and is able to get across not only the horror of it, but also the reasons many people from Africa believe in doing it to their daughters. It's worth reading the book for the mystery, as described by others, but... more info

• Inspector Wexford Series
  The calm and capable Wexford once again solves the local crime. But not before discovering some of the area's most eccentric and immoral personalities, and unearthing new scandals in an otherwise staid and stodgy British suburb. A Wexford novel never disappoints.

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