Instead, we get a couple more chapters on the aftermath and what happens to the main characters. It kept me guessing until the end, and it also didn’t wind things up in a rush, the way many mysteries do. “The Elegant Corpse” is a lovely little mystery, with a bit of kink. He is everything that rubs Roger the wrong way: messy, brash, profane, undisciplined, and yet, Roger can’t seem to get rid of the man, or get him out of his head. Only, he’s at a loss to understand what message the killer is trying to send.Īnd then there’s Sean, the much younger brother of the first victim left on Roger’s sofa. The bodies continue to pile up, and they all have something to do with Roger and his past, although many of them are strangers to him. Roger’s carefully constructed walls separating his worlds start to crumble when he returns home from a week away to find a mummified dead body laid out on his living room couch. While his fellow detectives know Roger is gay, they don’t know about his long association with the BDSM scene. He also has to be on guard about his private life.
Part of that is just who he is, but there’s also a defensive wall around the part of him that still grieves for his dead lover. He could make Joe Friday look like a loose cannon and Felix Unger look like a slob (★). Roger Corso is a detective with the LAPD, and a more tightly wound individual would be hard to imagine.
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