by Ruth Rendell
bookshelves: summer-2015, mystery-thriller, tbr-busting-2015, series, booker-longlist, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, sussex, incest-agameforallthefamily Read from August 19 to 22, 2015 Read by............... Christopher RavenscroftTotal Runtime......... 5 Hours 30 MinsDescription: The disco...
This is my first book from this writer and overall I really liked it. Nicely built mystery with all the proper clues and red herrings, such a typically British Inspector. I am sure when I will read more stories with him, his character will built up more in my head, but even after one book I liked hi...
Going back to read this Inspector Wexford mystery, written in 1970, was rather odd. I've come to know Wexford and Burden as much different, more fully developed characters. I liked them much less in this story.Rendell has obviously grown quite a bit as a writer. There are bits that are a bit wood...
Despite my fondness for British Golden Age mysteries (Christie, Sayers, Marsh), I have yet to find a more contemporary mystery writer that I really enjoy. To wit, Ruth Rendell is widely regarded as a master of the form, yet this manor mystery about a woman found dead in the woods left me cold (pun n...
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