Inspector Wexford (3 books in series)
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review 1: Rendell sets up a wonderfully creepy antagonist and a promising premise: Chief Inspector Wexford has a career-long nemesis! But the subplot about his subordinate officer's obsession with a Muslim family is weird and kind of annoying. The officer, Hannah Armstrong, is constantly v...
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English
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review 1: Pros: I like Rendell, I like Wexford, I like the class and race awareness that she sprinkles throughout her books (often with considerable humor). Cons: this book feels like coming in midway through conversation, not just because it's part of a series, but the way she introduces ...
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English
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review 1: # 24 in the Inspector Wexford mystery series set in a small community about an hour outside of London. Recently retired, Wexford is invited to join in the murder investigation of the town's vicar by the new chief inspector, Mike Burton, who was Wexford's deputy. Wexford is adju...