Rendell seems to base her plots on mad crimes by freaks, which leaves me cold. James at her best incomparably better than Dexter. Though she should have killed off the absurd Adam Dalgleish and made Cordelia Gray her regular detective.https://twitter.com/jwilson1812/status/930103631227031553 …
Should add since her name came up that Val McDermid also much better than Dexter, and less unpleasant than Rendell (even when horrifying as in The Last Temptation)