Showing posts with label Ruth Rendell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruth Rendell. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026
In Reference to Murder: Friday's "Forgotten" Books - Blood Lines
In Reference to Murder: Friday's "Forgotten" Books - Blood Lines: Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) is an author who needs very little introduction, having created the popular Chief Inspector Reginald "Reg...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Spell the Month in Books — March 2026: Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks . Each month one or two themes are suggested for the b...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Saturday, February 03, 2024
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Six Degrees of Separation: From The Optimist's Daughter to Wave Me Goodbye
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Six Degrees of Separation: From The Optimist's Dau...: The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest . The idea behind the meme is to start with a book and ...
Friday, November 17, 2023
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Fever Tree by Ruth Rendell
Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Fever Tree by Ruth Rendell: This collection contains 10 short stories and one novella. None of them are Inspector Wexford stories. All of the stories are excellent. U...
Friday, March 04, 2016
FFB Review: "A Judgement In Stone" by Ruth Rendell
Today is Ruth Rendell day on Patti Abbott’s blog for FFB.
After you read my effort below on A
Judgement In Stone make sure you check out the list over at Patti’s blog.
We know from the first line of Ruth
Rendell’s A Judgement In Stone who did the crime. Eunice Parchman
killed the Cloverdale family. We know from the second line of the compelling
book the reason why she did it. But, that reason is far more complicated than
described. Yet, at the same time, it truly is as simple as described.
What happened at Lowfield Hall, the
Cloverdale home located ten miles outside the small village of Stantwich, is
fairly clear. Why it happened at the manor home is as complicated as the layers
of an onion. If one little thing had been done differently the crime could have
been stopped in so many ways. Yet, it wasn’t as events and quite possible fate
itself made sure of the crime.
A Judgement In Stone is not a classic mystery. Readers know from the start the
crime, the guilty party, and the stated motivation. Instead, the read is a very
complicated character study. Not just of the killer Eugene Parchman, but
everyone in the book. Her accomplice who is clearly insane by the time of the
brutal killings, the victims known as the Cloverdales, as well as the people of
the local town, and many others.
Every crime leaves a wake of wreckage in its wake. That wake of wreckage in all its parts-- big and small--
is what the very good A Judgement In Stone by Ruth
Rendell is all about from start to finish.
My thanks to Barry Ergang who
provided an e-book version for me to read and review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2016
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