Death Notes
Written by Ruth Rendell
Narrated by Davina Porter
3.5/5
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Ruth Rendell
Edgar Award–winning author Ruth Rendell (b. 1930) has written more than seventy books and sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), she is the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. Rendell’s award-winning novels include A Demon in My View (1976), A Dark-Adapted Eye (1987), and King Solomon’s Carpet (1991). Her popular crime stories featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford were adapted into a long-running British television series (1987–2000) starring George Baker.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great characters, a superb mystery all narrated excellently a fantastic book
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good mystery. Did not predict the ending at all.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent, as always :) The mystery was complex, perhaps overly so, but engaging none the less.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This made excellent listening. Charles Kay does a very good job of narration and particularly allows you to savour Ruth Rendell's wonderful writing. There are little bits of particularly British humour that come over very well.The central story focuses on trying to prove whether the young woman who claims to be Sir Manuel Carmargue's only daughter, estranged from her father for 19 years, is who she is. Following threads from what is really an unofficial investigation, Wexford takes wife Dora to Los Angeles where he attempts to mix work with pleasure, and he and his offsider Burdon take a work trip to Paris to apprehend a murderer before he strikes again.Highly recommendable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Competent English style detective story without the annoying Baroque oddities that often arise.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rendell at her best. Another mystery with tons of twists and turns, wonderfully drawn characters, and lots of surprises. How much work does she need to put into these books to make them this good?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Originally released in the UK as Put on by Cunning, this is the 11th in the Kingsmarkham mystery series featuring Inspector Wexford. Rendell uses misdirection extremely well, and this reader certainly went off in the wrong direction. To say much more would spoil the suspense, and that’s the whole game, isn’t it? I’ve never been particularly fond of Rendell’s Kingsmarkham cast members, but I’ll give this installment three stars.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5got a head cold, reading mysteries - this is a good one, falling between her early work and her more socially themed recent Wexfords.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5British English slows me down. No humor. Complicated plot. Difficult to follow for me.