Heartstones

Name: Heartstones
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruth Rendell
ISBN: 9781461812005

Author: Ruth Rendell

Narrator: Alexandra O'Karma

Unabridged: 2 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/06/2011

Categories: Fiction, Psychological, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Few mystery writers can match Ruth Rendell's ability to get inside the dark, tangled psyches of everyday criminals. Rendell takes a single emotion-in this case a sister's all-consuming jealousy-and shows how even the most unsuspicious people are capable of the worst kind of horrors.

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 Tom

Ruth Rendell is so much better and more satisfying when not shackled to Inspector Wexford. This gothic novella is so good and reminiscent of We Have Always Lived in the Castle except I liked it better. It feels more like the Barbara Vine version of Ruth Rendell, and its relative briefness is an asse......more

Goodreads review by Banu

ruth rendell'ın bu kitabını yıllar evvel okumuştum, sonra kaybolmuş. bir sahaftan alıp yine okudum. ve evet, yine müthiş. remzi kitabevi'nin murathan mungan'ın genel yayın yönetmenliğini yaptığı çilek dizisinin tek bir kötü kitabı bile yok zaten. bu incecik novella baştan itibaren müthiş bir gerilim......more