A Judgement in Stone
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A gripping tragedy of crime and class, widely regarded as one of multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell's seminal masterworks and a crime fiction classic. Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will not be disappointed.
'One of her masterpieces' -- Telegraph
'A classic' -…
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This is a modern mystery classic by a master of the plot twist. I’ve studied Rendell’s stories for years, to understand how she makes such extraordinary yet plausible leaps.
In this book the revelatory information is contained in the very first sentence. A woman has killed her employers, for a reason that is shocking in its randomness and absurdity. Rendell then backtracks to show us that the victims did nothing rotten enough to deserve their fate. There is no motive. Nothing is gained.
As the author states in that amazing first sentence, the killer is driven to extraordinary violence purely…
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