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3 out of 5 stars
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Wrong narrator
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 134
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A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who finds the body, happens to also be in the employ of former Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford and his wife. When called on by his old deputy, Wexford, who has taken to reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a retirement project, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, but he's also desperate to escape the chatty Maxine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Perfect audiobook
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Marilyn
- London, United Kingdom
- 06-02-09
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 differentiated, and every twist and turn in the plot held me enthralled.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- L
- 05-11-13
Classic Wexford
This is one of my favorite Inspector Wexford books. While the book was written in the mid-80s, the story holds up very well today.
One of the beauties of Rendell's work is that while her characters grow and develop, you don't have to read the books in order. There are no spoilers between books.
The narrator is well suited to the story and to the character of Wexford. (I don't like all the narrators for the series; I wish Michael Bryant was available for more.)
Note: the narration on the actual file sounds better than the preview.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overallout of 5 stars
- Cheryl
- Bartlett, TN, United States
- 06-09-09
Great plot
This is an excellent summer listen.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Deborah
- 05-21-14
Awful, dismal, dated and contrived. So contrived.
What disappointed you about An Unkindness of Ravens?
The murder just does not make sense. There is no meat in it, nothing to serve as catharsis, or even reward, for trudging through the mid-1970s hippie trappings (as imagined, clearly, by someone not of the tribe. And the talked singing passages--cringe. More importantly, the victim, introduced immediately, is summarily abandoned, remaining a nonentity for the balance of this loose tale. By the time (finally) the murderer is revealed and the scene described, I had ceased really to care. And the misinformed use of marijuana as psychotic motivator just seems so silly. Bad trip all the way.
How could the performance have been better?
Michael Bryant: Thank you for NOT singing; you did your best with the talk-sing. Still; ugh.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- D
- 03-01-16
Rendell keeps you interested by her characters
Always detailed characters how intertwined they are. You can relate to them they mirror some of the people in your own life and she gives you a way to relate.
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- Miss Ruth S
- 07-29-19
Dated and ridiculously misogynistic
First third was excellent, then it gets bogged down in weird, dated and confused misogyny. Endless wittering about a caricatured group of young feminists. Ridiculous, creepy and offensive comments about rape and incestuous rape.