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One of the best novelists writing today --P.D. James
The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time --Patricia Cornwell
Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world --Ian Rankin
[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age --Herald
Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear
--Sunday Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time --Patricia Cornwell
Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world --Ian Rankin
[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age --Herald
Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear
--Sunday Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The tenth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series.
Death is always solitary. For some, so is life . . .
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As usual Ruth Rendell writes beautifully with enough description to keep interest without detracting from a really good story. I have now read all of her books except one and that is on order.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
found it very enjoyable but realised after I started that I had seen it on tv. To the best of my knowledge it followed the story compleatly and I enjoyed reading it.
10 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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The central character leaves a provincial town to churn out a series of steadily selling middlebrow novels - now who does that remind me of? This is almost a good book. It has an ingenious mystery at its heart, and Rendell has obviously visited the locations she uses (a rather grim London suburb, a "new-rich" mansion with mirrored walls), a Victorian villa that's seen better days, and taken notes on characters she's observed (a cute Indian girl, a dim gay wine bar owner) but the whole novel seems bolted together from these components. Wexford and his wife Dora and sidekick Burden stubbornly refuse to come to life. And a clunky "relevant" plot strand about women's lib (this is 1979) is dragged in to provide a clue. The whole thing was done much better by Josephine Tey in To Love and Be Wise.
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