A review by meiklejohn
A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell

2.0

It's interesting to read the early Wexford books after starting with the more recent ones. Rendell doesn't quite know what to do with Wexford - she's trying to make him like Adam Dalgliesh, aloof and over-given to quoting poetry. It doesn't make him sympathetic, and the fact that he becomes a completely different character in the later books is a good thing. The "big twist" in this one was also telegraphed a mile away and the written confession was overwrought. I will probably forget that I read this one, down the road.