Wednesday 3rd January 2007 @ 11:02 PM
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The Best Man to Die is one of Ruth Rendell’s Chief Inspector Wexford stories. Charlie Hatton is killed on the eve of his best friends wedding. Inspector Wexford finds his body the next day down at the river, his head bashed in with a rock. Then Wexford has to unravel the mystery and figure out [...]
Wednesday 3rd January 2007 @ 11:02 PM
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Vanity Dies Hard is one of Rendell’s more psychological crime/thrillers. Alice Whittaker’s friend Nesta mysteriously vanished after Alice’s marriage and this story tells of Alice’s attempts at tracking her friend down.
I thought that there was only one interesting aspect in this story, the way that Alice’s mind spiraled downwards towards madness. I feel that [...]
Wednesday 3rd January 2007 @ 11:00 PM
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This book is a golden-oldie. As you can probably guess from the title, the plot is about a journey to the centre of Earth. Professor Von Hardwigg finds a cryptic bit of parchment with runes on it that tells him how to get into the centre of the Earth from Iceland. Dragging his unwilling nephew [...]
