Road Rage, by Ruth Rendell

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Dec 032011
 

A Reginald Wexford mystery

Ruth Rendell’s mysteries have a strong psychological foundation, and Road Rage, like most of her books, at least the many that I’ve read, has an edginess, an uneasiness, that violence is just around the next corner. Here, she serves up a tale of an extraordinary scheme, inspired by good intentions, that goes tragically wrong. Continue reading »

Jeffrey Archer’s A Prisoner of Birth

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Aug 162011
 

Jeffrey Archer tells a tale that shows a reader that things and people and events aren’t always what they seem

In this particular mystery, A Prisoner of Birth, Archer takes readers on a labyrinthine journey through courts, prisons, probation offices, homes grand and humble, wealthy and impoverished parts of London, people good and bad. And in this well-plotted mystery, very little is what it seems, what it was intended to be, or what it was when it all began. Continue reading »