From Doon With Death: A Wexford Case - 50th Anniversary Edition (Wexford, 1)

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It is not a case of intuition, it is the answer to the mystery in so many words, in a conversation between the detective and another party, to which the reader is not privy to. Read them and tell me they don’t add affects that would be hard to narrate without sounding like propaganda. Chilling, richly characterized, and ingeniously constructed, this is psychological suspense at its very finest. In one of these podcasts, Meredith had recommended the Inspector Wexford series to Louise Penny fans.

Although it lacks the polish of later volumes in the series, and Wexford especially hasn't yet assumed final form, it is a very capable first outing. I feel this just goes to show that all of us have past indiscretions that we have papered over and attempted to forget. From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century. It then says that a read-through of Rendell’s oeuvre is like reading a social history of England from 1964 to the present.One of the hosts, Meredith, is a huge Louise Penny fan, as I was for the first eight novels of her series. The time and place and characters are generally well drawn, and the plot engaging (even though the outcome was obvious to me fairly early on).

I am sure that a proof reader could have easily rectified the mistakes and, although I expect to see them in a self published book, it is unacceptable to find so many in a traditionally published ebook. Whether the reader is surprised by where the novel goes, I think the appeal of the book is in the very competent execution of those ideas.In the 2007 edition of the novel published by Ballantine Books there is a "Dossier" by the author in which she shares, "I realized that I had put an enormous amount of me-and to some extent my father-into him.

It is not so much that this story could not be told today but that it would be told differently and our sympathies might be expected to be somewhat different.When Rendell is on her game, she is one of the best, so I'm glad to have this series on my to-read list. The problems are those of the early 1960s, when women were just starting to extricate themselves from being exclusively housewives and starting to reach for sexual equality.