I love Ruth Rendell’s standalone novels but dislike the Inspector Wexford series.
Rendell’s Wexfords were way too liberal for me even when I was on the left. Each novel defends some leftist cause while portraying anybody the least bit conservative as a complete moron at best and an evildoer at worst. There’s a million novels in the series, and they are all equally preachy in the most predictable way.
Curiously, Rendell’s standalone novels are imbued with a deeply conservative sensibility. Look at what I wrote about The Face of Trespass the other day. It doesn’t get more Christian than what she does in that novel.
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I loved her Wexford novels. The later ones did get kind of preachy. I love the descriptions of the people and the environments they created for themselves.
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“dislike the Inspector Wexford”
Read a couple…. don’t much remember them. As mysteries they were fine but I don’t remember Wexford himself having much of a personality…
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