Road Rage

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. This one must be the first one I liked. Usually, I find Ruth Rendell just bores me to death. This is especially true of the Wexford series. The same boring elements were there in Road Rage too but they were downplayed and some interesting themes were opened......more

Road Rage (1997) by Ruth Rendell focuses on the unrest that takes over the Kingsmarkham area when a beautiful valley is destined to be broken up to make way for a new highway. Environmentalist groups of all sorts descend on Kingsmarkham for protests and some of the groups set up camps in the wooded......more

3 Stars. Enjoyable but not exciting. My first Ruth Rendell; if I had a choice of one author on a long flight, I'd look elsewhere. Yet I want to come back - my experience is that earlier volumes in a series are often better. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford plods and shuffles. Not intentionally, it just f......more

This book was one of many being passed around the homeless community around Bath, England years ago when I was one of the community. It centers on motorway protests. I met many in the UK who participated in these protests (including a prim old lady sipping tea and smiling, talking about her arrest.)......more

Disappointing because I’ve liked Rendell in the past. Too much jumping around without clarity of how much time has passed or which character is now the subject of the paragraph. Also, moon phasing completely out of whack in the passage of time.......more