The Brimstone Wedding
The Crocodile Bird
Portobello
Not In the Flesh
Caroline Mann – Library Journal: The prolific Rendell (or Barbara Vine, depending on what you're reading) offers her 21st Chief Inspector Wexford novel. Readers watch as a truffle-hunting suburbanite and his dog stumble across a long-buried body on a vacant property. Upon investigation, Wexford and his team uncover a second murder victim in the basement […]
The Water's Lovely
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Three-time Edgar Award?winner Rendell (13 Steps Down) often creates fragile characters, trembling on the edge of losing a lover, child, job, solvency or sanity. Slashing through their world is a wild card, an obsessive or a sociopath too focused on personal gain to be concerned with damage to others. The […]
End In Tears
Library Journal Review: Whether writing as Barbara Vine or under her own name, Rendell (Thirteen Steps Down) is an icon in the mystery-writing genre. With more than 50 novels to her credit, she shows no signs of slowing down?or losing her touch. In this, her 20th Chief Inspector Wexford mystery, Rendell lays out a complex […]