A sleeping life - Wyrms.de

180 pages

English language

Published May 1, 2000 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-375-70493-2

(2 reviews)

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)

4 editions

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

Review of 'A sleeping life' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

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.

Octo

rated it

May 1, 2012

Subjects

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