Avail Yourself Babes In The Wood And Live Flesh Drafted By Ruth Rendell Distributed In Hardcover
think Ruth Rendell's novels make better TV stories! I found the novel a bit slow and long winded, The descriptive parts were good and I could see and feel the flood scenes, Her character portrayals are realistic, but too many flawed characters and not enough of characters we can admire, Babes In The wood was an OK Murder Mystery that did not really catch my sympathies for anyone involved
Live Flesh was excellent and on it's own it would getfrom me.
A horrible main character who I hated throughout but I had to keep reading to find out if he got his just desserts THE BABES IN THE WOOD: With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy.
Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel.
But when the sitters smashedup car is found at the bottom of a local quarryoccupied by a battered corpsethe investigation takes on a very different hue,
LIVE FLSH: After ten years in prison for shooting and permanently crippling a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself.
It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed, Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot all those years ago, and David's beautiful girlfriend, Clare, And suddenly Victor's new life is starting to look an awful lot like the old one, . . A. K. A. sitelink Barbara VineRuth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also wrote under the pseudonym sitelink Barbara Vine, was an acclaimed English crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mysteries and above all for Inspector Wexford.
A. K. A. sitelink Barbara VineRuth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also wrote under the pseudonym sitelink Barbara Vine, was an acclaimed English crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mysteries and above all for Inspector Wexford.
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