Inspector Wexford
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    From Doon with Death: The First Inspector Wexford Novel | Ruth Rendell
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    From Doon with Death: The First Inspector Wexford Novel

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    The first case for DCI Reg Wexford. When Margaret Parsons disappears, it's assumed that she's run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found and a startling discovery is made when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home...

    It's worth starting here

    I started Rendell with her later Wexford mysteries, but hesitated to spend a credit on this one because it was both older and shorter. I'm glad I fina..Show More »

    Reviewed on Mar 12 2011 by connie (Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada)
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    Wolf to the Slaughter | Ruth Rendell
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    Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime, nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and a name. A pattern soon emerged to the investigation. Not only had Anita been wealthy and flighty, she had been thoroughly immortal, too.

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    A New Lease of Death: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    A New Lease of Death: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case - it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own. There had been no doubts about the case, until now. Someone wants the case reopened, and they want Wexford proved wrong.

    A New Lease of Death

    I enjoyed this one much more than the first Wexford book: it's like Ruth Rendell is getting into her stride, the characters are well painted and the s..Show More »

    Reviewed on Jul 09 2012 by Nicole (Flemington, Australia)
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    The Best Man to Die: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    The Best Man to Die: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer....

    Classic who-dunnit
    Reviewed on Feb 24 2013 by Kathi (Sterling, VA, United States)
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    The Best Man to Die: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    The Best Man to Die: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer.

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    A Guilty Thing Surprised: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    A Guilty Thing Surprised: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    The Nightingales were always a very happy couple. So why did someone batter Elizabeth Nightingale to death in the woods that dark September night? Can DCI Wexford discover a motive?

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    No More Dying Then | Ruth Rendell
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    An Inspector Wexford mystery. On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears and is never seen again. Then, on a warm October day, five-year-old John Lawrence fails to come home, and evil, mad, taunting letters begin, which make the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality.

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    Murder Being Once Done | Ruth Rendell
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    The death of an unknown girl in a London cemetery shouldn't have been a case for Wexford, but it proved to be one of the most macabre of his career.

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    Some Lie and Some Die | Ruth Rendell
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    Some Lie and Some Die

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    For awhile, the rock festival at "Sundays" went well. The sun shone, the bands played, and everyone - except a few angry neighbors - seemed to enjoy themselves. Then the weather changed. And in a nearby quarry, two lovers found a body that made even Inspector Wexford's stomach lurch.…

    Solid Gold

    This is an oldie but pure gold. Been a Rendell fan for years. This is one of the very best, and don't know how I missed it. I was riveted. Get it,..Show More »

    Reviewed on Mar 31 2011 by Jean (Scottsdale, AZ, United States)
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    Some Lie and Some Die: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    Some Lie and Some Die: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    For a while the Pop Festival at Sundays went well. The sun shone, the groups played and everyone - except a few angry neighbours - seemed to enjoy themselves. Then the weather changed, and a young couple made a gruesome discovery.

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    Shake Hands For Ever | Ruth Rendell
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    Shake Hands For Ever

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    This case is proving a difficult one for Chief Inspector Wexford. All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?

    Ruth Rendell Does Not Fail You For A Good Read
    Reviewed on Jul 09 2012 by Electic Chef (USA)
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    Shake Hands Forever | Ruth Rendell
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    The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford.

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    A Sleeping Life | Ruth Rendell
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    A Sleeping Life

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    The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them DI Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must have been his imagination. However, he didn't have much more to go on.

    chapters are repeated

    This is a good book, but each chapter has been put on twice, 1, 1, 2, 2, etc. This is annoying

    Reviewed on Aug 19 2010 by Linda (Bay Shore, NY, United States)
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    Death Notes: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    Death Notes: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    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.

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    An Unkindness of Ravens | Ruth Rendell
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    An Unkindness of Ravens

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    Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford - a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.

    Brilliantly written and very entertaining

    All the Inspector Wexford novels are a joy to read, and Michael Bryant is the perfect reader. All the characters are clearly and realistically differ..Show More »

    Reviewed on Jun 02 2009 by Marilyn (London, United Kingdom)
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    An Unkindness of Ravens: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    An Unkindness of Ravens: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    Chief Inspector Wexford finds nothing unusual in the disappearance of Rodney Williams, a husband and father who likely has run off with another woman. But when the man’s car and suitcase are discovered abandoned, can a body be far behind?

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    The Veiled One | Ruth Rendell
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    Wexford is shopping for his wife’s birthday present when the body of a strangled woman is discovered nearby. Then his daughter is arrested for an anti-nuclear war demonstration, and a car bomb puts him in the hospital while a psychopathic killer is loose and bent on revenge.

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    In a desolute underground car park, beneath a heap of rags lies the body of a woman. Inspector Mike Burden blunders down several blind alleys before uncovering the truth...

    Good book, not a great book

    Too much social commentary for my taste. Otherwise, a good book but nearly unintelligible narration.

    Reviewed on May 09 2011 by Greg (minnetonka, MN, United States)
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    Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter | Ruth Rendell
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    Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy, the only survivor of the mass murders that obliterated her family.

    Entertaining but predictable with rushed ending
    Reviewed on Aug 17 2012 by N. (USA)
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    The massacre at Tancred House seems at first to be the work of a burglar, panicked into killing. But Chief Inspector Wexford believes there are links with the murder of a Kingsmarkham detective some ten months earlier.

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    Simisola | Ruth Rendell
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    When the daughter of Inspector Wexford's GP goes missing, he must battle through the prejudice to discover the shocking truth.

    Very listenable

    Good plot development - interesting characters - well written descriptions. Only criticism I have is that the narrator's voice for the main character..Show More »

    Reviewed on Apr 25 2012 by Katherine (YANCO, Australia)
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    Road Rage: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    Road Rage: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    A proposed highway through a forest near Kingsmarkham has caused loud cries of protest. One group has taken more drastic measures. It will risk everything—including the lives of five hostages—to halt construction. When Inspector Wexford learns that one of the hostages is his wife, Dora, he is caught in a spiral of frustration and fear. The gripping drama of his search takes on added intensity through Davina Porter’s crisp narration.

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    A bypass is planned in Kingsmarkham, but before the protestors make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered. Burden thinks he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not convinced.

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    Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    Harm Done presents the inspector with a most volatile challenge: the various guises of domestic abuse. The residents of a shabby housing complex in the London suburb of Kingsmarkham are furious. A convicted pedophile, released from prison, has returned to their community. At the same time, two young women disappear, each returning several days later with little memory of where she has been. As Wexford investigates, Kingsmarkham is rocked by violence and murder. To prevent further harm, the inspector must coax some surprising motives from the reluctant suspects.

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    Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some days later. Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a pedophile who has been recently released back into the community but cannot foresee a series of serious crimes waiting to happen.

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    The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery | Ruth Rendell
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    The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery

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    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.

    as good as anything Rendell has written

    If you appreciate mysteries -- of the more traditional "cozy" variety rather than edge of seat potboilers with formula violence and sex-- this is a p..Show More »

    Reviewed on Mar 13 2011 by connie (Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada)
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    End in Tears | Ruth Rendell
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    A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while.

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    A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while.

    Intriguing & complicated story

    I quite enjoyed this book. I had never read any of the "Inspector Wexford" books by Ruth Rendell, and was relieved that I didn't have to have read any..Show More »

    Reviewed on Aug 02 2006 by Susan B. (Bay Area, CA)
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    Not in the Flesh | Ruth Rendell
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    Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury: a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for 10 years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man’s ribs. The police computer stores a long list of missing persons: something like 500 people every day disappear nationwide.

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    Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel | Ruth Rendell
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    Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel

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    When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand.

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    The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel | Ruth Rendell
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    The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel

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    In this enthralling new audiobook, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder - serial murder.Outside the house where Wexford investigated his first murder case - a woman found strangled in her bedroom - he noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog. He gave Wexford an unnerving stare....

    Not Good!

    It has taken me six months to finish this book, I had to stop listening then go back, the narrator was awful, the story line was interesting but not r..Show More »

    Reviewed on May 16 2010 by Paul (Martinez, GA, United States)
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    Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty, no one was convicted.

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    The Vault: An Inspector Wexford Novel | Ruth Rendell
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    The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of a more relaxed way of life, Wexford misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a detective superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case.

    This said it is unabriged, but is it

    As usual, a good story by Ruth Rendell...but I recognize it from a much longer story in which we see the murders, the sealing up of the door, the arti..Show More »

    Reviewed on Dec 01 2011 by Norma (Grand Rapids, MI, United States)
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    Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case.

    Really enjoyed this

    The Wexford novels are usually very good and this was no exception. Nicely read, it kept my attention going.

    Reviewed on Jan 16 2012 by ACT1 (Australia)