Review of 'The Various Haunts of Men (Simon Serrailler, #1)' on 'LibraryThing'
Cross Ruth Rendell at her creepiest with PD James and you might come up with this book. Women are disappearing in a British city and a cluster of New Age alternative health care practices in a nearby village may be involved. The writing is strong, many of the characters are well developed, the main detective hero is chilly and nearly invisible (I can't imagine why the female detective who is doing all the work has such a Mills and Boone crush on him, and neither can she) and the interludes from the creepy, twisted killer who becomes obvious long before the police figure it out are tiresome. In spite of finding several aspects of this book annoying, I enjoyed it on the whole.
