Some Lie and Some Die (1973) A Rock Concert near Kingsmarkham attracts tens of thousand of (mostly) young people. On the last day, a pair of lovers discover a badly battered body in the small quarry on the edge of the estate. Wexford and Burden use their usual mix of dogged police work (mostly done by coppers off stage), intuition, and psychological insight. We learn a few more details of their back stories (Burden is a widower, Wexford is edging towards retirement), but on the whole this is a potboiler. It feels as if it’s perhaps adapted from another story idea, since it features Rendell’s interest is psycho-pathology. A good quick read, but not her best Wexford. **Ruth Rendell.
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