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    Death Notes
    Death Notes
    Death Notes
    Audiobook7 hours

    Death Notes

    Written by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Inspector Wexford and his assistant Burden unravel the threads connecting the drowning of an elderly, world-renowned flautist and the murder of a woman whose identity confounds them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 8, 2011
    ISBN9781461812029
    Death Notes
    Author

    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

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    • 5/5
      Great characters, a superb mystery all narrated excellently a fantastic book
    • 3/5
      Good mystery. Did not predict the ending at all.
    • 4/5
      Excellent, as always :) The mystery was complex, perhaps overly so, but engaging none the less.
    • 5/5
      This 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.
    • 3/5
      Competent English style detective story without the annoying Baroque oddities that often arise.
    • 4/5
      Rendell 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?
    • 3/5
      Originally 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.
    • 3/5
      got a head cold, reading mysteries - this is a good one, falling between her early work and her more socially themed recent Wexfords.
    • 1/5
      British English slows me down. No humor. Complicated plot. Difficult to follow for me.