Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
Book Review
Reviewed September 13, 2006
I watched the PBS version of this story right before reading the book, and was startled by the many differences—while the names are basically the same and the story still revolves around missing teen Valerie Taylor, the characters, settings, and plot twists are vastly different. It was like watching two different stories—different, but both interesting. And the definite upside was that I had no idea how the book was going to turn out. Oddly, it didn’t really turn out at all. The story, with all its typically Dexterous twists and dead ends, has an ambiguous ending that’s completely unexpected in a traditional detective novel. With any other book, I’d pay lip service to the “realism” but secretly gripe about loose ends and missing chapters; with a Morse novel, it comes off as both plausible and curiously satisfying. As usual, I spent several days mulling over the complex plot even after I’d finished the book—Dexter’s stories are so densely detailed that, like a really good meal, they require some time to digest when you’ve finished them.
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