“Some Lie and Some Die” by Ruth Rendell

I’m continuing to get acquainted with the works of this very original, gloomy, unpredictable and unmistakable English writer of detective novels. Once again I meet Chief Inspector Wexford who is always sixty, no matter what year it is – and always impossible to deceive, even if it takes him some time to arrive at the truth. He won’t entertain us by disclosing to us his deductions the way Hercule Poirot would do, but he is fascinating in his own, Wexford, way. I don’t always understand how he arrives at the truth at the end of each book, but I always look forward to the moment when he will reveal the solution to Burden and/or someone else.

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