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Ruth Rendell, Meurtre indexé
Les vacances sont une occasion, s’il en est, pour commettre des hérésies littéraires. Telles que lire du Ruth Rendell en traduction française. Cela ne m’était pas arrivé depuis des années.…
Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine), The Brimstone Wedding
I have read The Brimstone Wedding eight years ago (some months before starting my book reviews web site), but I had no memories whatsoever of the story. It is strange,…
Ruth Rendell, The Water’s Lovely
This Ruth Rendell's novel, like others, present us with a cast of characters with strange particularities or skeleton in their closets: First of all two sisters, Ismay and Heather, who…
Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine), King Solomon’s Carpet
Although King Solomon's Carpet is the first Vine's (but also Rendell's) book I have ever read (about 15 years ago), and therefore the one which hooked me enough to start…
Ruth Rendell (as Barbara Vine), Grasshopper
Grasshopper is the story of a young woman, Clodagh Brown, whose teenage years are darkened by a terrible event involving a pylon. A couple of years later, Clodagh, who managed…