A sleeping life

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180 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2000 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-375-70493-2
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Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night. Thirty minutes later he was in a field outside the neighboring village of Kingsmarkham gazing down at a woman viciously stabbed to death. (from the dust jacket)

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reviewed A sleeping life by Ruth Rendell (Vintage crime/Black Lizard)

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Not her best work, but the take on feminism is fairly nuanced for a mystery first published in 1978, and the mystery itself satisfyingly twisty. I don't so much buy the conclusion though.

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Subjects

  • Wexford, Inspector (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Police -- England -- Sussex -- Fiction.
  • Sussex (England) -- Fiction.