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

Ruth Rendell: A sleeping life (2000, Vintage Books) 3 stars

Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived …

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.