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Title: Simisola by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-440-22202-8 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A fine substitute for Unisom
Comment: Rendell is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant novelists of our time, but frankly, I was neither entertained nor held on the edge of my seat by SIMISOLA. Although the book is well-plotted, it is extremely slow-paced and has very little action to propel the story forward. The author deals with a number of issues in this novel, including racism and slavery, and also explores and contrasts the extravagant wealth of the upper class with the poverty and poor conditions of the unemployed lower class. While Rendell is undeniably gifted both at constructing a story and discussing a number of social issues, SIMISOLA is dull and it took me a long time to finish.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chýef Inspector will hunt in the suburbs of England...
Comment: People lack the time for reading books; you may be concerned about the thickness of the book, do not!
A girls disappearence could not be more mysterious.
Chief Inspector Wexford's reasoning power is just behind the truth which disappears with every new fact untill the last page of the book.
The girl was last seen alive in an unemployment office... was she?
You find yourself in a maze of events which drag you from backstreets to reality; and then back again.
This book will be the beginning of Ruth Rendell series which are a fine blend of real life atmosphere and fiction.
The taste will still be there, and you will be hungry for more!
Rating: 4
Summary: Murder, family and race keep Wexford hopping
Comment: Winner of three Edgars and four Gold Daggers, Rendell is a master of tightly constructed plots, characters under pressure and heightened atmosphere.
Simisola, her 16th Inspector Wexford mystery, set in the fairly small town of Kingsmarkham, England, opens with Wexford's new doctor -an African immigrant - beseeching the chief inspector for help finding his daughter, Melanie, last seen at the unemployment center. Melanie's home life is strict and Wexford assumes she's shaking off the yoke until the claims adviser who helped Melanie at the job center is found murdered.
Meanwhile Wexford's whiny daughter Sylvia and ill-matched husband are both jobless and going on the dole. Wexford, fretted by guilt at his impatience towards his daughter, and knowing that he would not be making daily visits to Melanie's parents if they were not black, muses over social attitudes, ingrained prejudice and motives for murder until the body of a young black woman is discovered.
There are few blacks in Kingsmarkham and despite several small clues to the contrary, Wexford assumes it's Melanie. After a night of grief, the family arrives at the mortuary only to find a stranger.
Wexford, mortified, approaches the three-part investigation with new insight - re-examining every assumption, taking note of every tiny discrepancy.
Kingsmarkham is large enough to encompass slums, council flats and elaborate estates, allowing Rendell to involve a wealthy and flashy female politician, a surgeon and his lackadaisically privileged children, a petty thief, an adulterous businessman, unemployed youth and a hidden black underclass in a story that unwinds in dark twists and turns of grubby secrets.
Although the explosive ending may seem unrealistically grotesque to some, it's still vintage Rendell - suspenseful and wholly absorbing.
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Title: Road Rage: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback)) by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0440226023 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Kissing the Gunner's Daughter by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0446403342 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Sleeping Life by RUTH RENDELL ISBN: 0375704930 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 11 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: No More Dying Then! (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0375704892 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0345348176 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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