A review by msmandrake
The Best Man To Die by Ruth Rendell

2.0

I recently read the very first Wexford book and thought it was not bad, but didn't feel compelled to read them in order. So I next tried one of the later ones and didn't like it much... thought, maybe she had run a little dry, I'll try an earlier one again. This had a lot of problems with the plot, it got very convoluted and hard to follow, I could not figure out how the police figured it out as it didn't make sense and there is a very important clue that is hidden until the end because if you knew it it would have been too obvious, but that's bad plot construction and the characters were all so unlikeable I didn't much care who got murdered or why anyway. Sort of disappointing, I was hoping to really like this series.