“Some men and women, she reflected, fell into their proper
profession, the only one they were eminently crafted to do.
And this man was one such. Highly intelligent without the
spark of genius, well educated without being entrapped by
his learning, nigh infinitely patient, rational to the core
yet subtle, empathetic when it suited him, and endowed with
an analytical brain. A policeman by nature who might
successfully have done a dozen other things for a living,
but had lit upon the one he was made for.”
It’s August 1969, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is
away on a family vacation. Back at home, in the sleepy
college town of Holloman, Connecticut, first one, then two
anonymous male corpses turn up—emaciated and emasculated.
After connecting the victims to four other bodies, Sergeant
Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg realize that
Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily,
Carmine’s beloved wife Desdemona sends him home from
vacation early.
Carmine’s team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics, who
share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. They
readily admit to knowing all the victims, but their stories
keep changing. It’s awkward that one of them is a new friend
of Delia’s, a woman she recently befriended along with the
respected and innovative head of the mental hospital, who
has been rehabilitating one very difficult patient to be her
trusted assistant. When another vicious murder rocks
Holloman, Carmine realizes that two killers are at large
with completely different modus operandi. Like Delia, he
finds this case too close to home when he barely escapes
being next on the body count. Suddenly the summer isn’t so
sleepy anymore.
Colleen McCullough’s riveting Carmine Delmonico books take
you back to a time when detectives relied mainly on logic,
intelligence, and instinct—and a good home-cooked meal or
breakfast at Malvolio’s with colleagues. Sins of the Flesh
is her finest mystery yet, pitting her beloved hero against
every cop’s nightmare scenario in a plot that turns on the
science that McCullough herself knows so well.
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