Silent Girls is an excellent police procedural from an author I only now discovered. The novel is part of a series set in rural Vermont, which is attractive in and if itself. Rickstadt is a gifted plot creator, and he’s also downright talented in describing interiors of houses and apartments. He can explain everything about a character in a 4-sentence description of his room.
I’ve got to warn you, though. Rickstadt is very left-wing. It’s fashionable to call today’s left-wingers Marxists but this is outdated. They were Marxist 60 years ago but today they are the exact opposite. Rickstadt despises working-class people with a searing passion. Not only aren’t they the most progressive class, in his view, they are an absolute abomination.
Rickstadt despises the rich, too, but only because they are too religious. Where he found all those fanatically religious rich people is a mystery but, like all lefties, Rickstadt is obsessed with what he sees as the poisonous horror of Christianity. If only Christianity were as powerful as the Rickstadts of the world believe, we’d all be sitting pretty.
I’ll continue reading Rickstadt’s Vermont series because it’s rare to find great descriptions of interiors any more, and the tedium of his wokeness is not enough to scare me off.
Clarissa's Blog 