Both women have their own secrets – a reformed psychopath and a murky history. It’s lucky for Delia that she’s made two new friends – Jess, a psychiatrist with a talent for brain mapping and Ivy, who runs part of her brother’s business. How can a woman vanish and not be reported until months later? Meanwhile, female detective Delia Carstairs is investigating a series of missing women and getting nowhere. A man starved to death is found which sets off alarm bells for other men who have gone missing recently. It’s somewhat appropriate to read Sins of the Flesh during a long, hot Australian summer because the book opens during a particular hot summer in Holloman, 1969. It’s brutal at times with attitudes that fit the 1960s setting and there’s no shortage of bodies on the streets of Holloman, Connecticut. Fans of her historical novels such as The Thorn Birds may be quite surprised at how different this series is. This is the fifth Carmine Delmonico detective novel that Colleen McCullough has written and I’ve read. Why I chose it: Have been reading the Carmine Delmonico novels since the first one ( On, Off) Some of the attitudes of characters to homosexuality come as a shock to the modern reader. The good: More of Delia, the female detective with a heart of gold and an individual dress sense. Murders and missing women are taunting the detectives – can Carmine Delmonico and his team figure out these twisted events?
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