International bestselling author Ruth Rendell delivers a first-rate new Inspector Wexford mystery--a traditional British whodunit rendered unique by Rendell's celebrated gift for characterization and social commentary.
At first there was no reason to link the killings. The one, months earlier, seemed totally random: a lump of concrete, pushed off an overpass onto a passing car. By contrast, the bludgeoning death of Amber, returning home late after night-clubbing with her teenaged friends, was obviously calculated. The killer had been seen waiting for the girl in a nearby wood. But when Inspector Wexford found that Amber had been the driver right behind the crushed car--and that both were Hondas of similar vintage and color--he knew that someone had wanted the teenager dead badly enough to kill twice to get the job done. And the murders had not yet come to an end.
John Lee's great achievement in reading Ruth Rendell's twentieth novel about Chief Inspector Wexford is his ability to draw the reader into the story. Lee provides a fully voiced performance of the book, differentiating the characters effectively; furthermore, his use of silence, of pace, of even his ever precise diction manages always to make the story intriguing. Lee's accomplishment is all the more worthwhile since the novel, while as insightful about human nature as Rendell's other Wexford books, is a bit straightforward and unsurprising in its plotting. The mystery centers around the relationship between the murders of two teenaged girls, one a recent mother and the other recently pregnant. Lee sounds truly interested in the story, and in some indefinable way that compels the listener's attention, too. G.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
Time...
"The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."
People...
"One of the most remarkable novelists of her generation."
The New Yorker...
"Her clear shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."
P. D. James...
"She has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche."
Scott Turow...
"Surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language."
Tony Hillerman...
"Those who haven't read her books have missed something unique and wonderful."
Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review...
"Ruth Rendell is my dream writer. Her prose style, so intricate in design and supple in execution, has the disquieting intimacy of an alien touch in the dark."
Patricia Cornwell...
"Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time. She magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing."
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