In The Monster in the Box, the twenty-second book in the Inspector Wexford series, fans will be thrilled to meet the now-aging inspector in the robust early days of his career. She believes that the Rahmans, a highly respectable immigrant family from Pakistan, may be forcing their daughter, Tamima, into an arranged marriage - or worse. Meanwhile, Burden's wife, Jenny, has suspicions of her own. Wexford tells his longtime partner, Mike Burden, about his suspicions, but Burden dismisses them as fantasy. Now, half a lifetime later, Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence. In other words, the novel’s stories don’t neatly categorize its characters as good or evil, echoing the complexity of people in real life. Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford continues to quietly suspect that the increasingly prosperous Targo - van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover - is behind them. The monster summarizes the primary idea couched within the stories after it tells the first tale: There is not always a good guy. Without any solid evidence, Wexford began to suspect that this man - Eric Targo, he learned - was the killer.
Outside the house where Wexford investigated his first murder case - a woman found strangled in her bedroom - he noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog.
THE MONSTER WITHIN TYPE QUOTES SERIAL
In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" ( Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder - serial murder. The Monster In The Box is the latest addition to Ruth Rendell's classic and beguiling Inspector Wexford series.
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