Death Notes

Name: Death Notes
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9781461812029

Author: Ruth Rendell

Series: Inspector Wexford Mysteries #11

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/08/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

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.

About Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on February 22, 2025

Great mystery. Some good reveals. Wexford gets to go to California and the South of France investigating what he thinks about s a conspiracy. To quote a song ‘Girls just want to have fun.’ The death of an elderly flautist who is about to get married to a younger woman appears an accident. But the re......more

Goodreads review by Felisa on July 07, 2012

One of the better Inspector Wexford mysteries, though the solution to the murder is a bit too intricate to be actually satisfying.......more

Goodreads review by Cybercrone on December 10, 2019

Can't often accuse Rendell of trying too hard (or anything else negative, for that matter) but this book does. The plot, theories and characters get so convoluted at points that I would have loved to see the filing system it took to keep it all coming straight in the end.......more