Face of Trespass,the - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553259768 ISBN 13: 9780553259766

Publisher: Bantam, 1975

Synopsis

When his affair with beautiful, young Drusilla Jones abruptly ends, Graham Lanceton withdraws from the world, obsessed by her memory

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Rendell is the recipient of several awards, including three Edgars and four Gold Daggers from the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association. Simisola, Blood Lines, Keys to the Street, and The Brimstone Wedding (written as Barbara Vine) are available from Brilliance Audio. She lives in England.

From AudioFile:

One problem with audiobooks is that you can't flip to the end of the book to find out what happens. Nor can you skip pages when the action rattles your nerves. Both these coping techniques would be tempting here as the dramatic narration of Ric Jerrom amplifies the nail-biting effect of Ruth Rendell's prose. Although there's no actual violence, the tension builds as an impoverished British writer becomes captivated--and manipulated--by a beautiful woman who wants him to kill her wealthy husband. It is her seductive voice, so superbly reproduced by the narrator, that casts an increasingly ominous spell. As the plot tightens, the voice gets lower and lower and more and more sinister until, at the end, it has become a sibilant whisper. Pity any timid souls who listen to that voice before bedtime! J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0553259768
• ISBN 13: 9780553259766
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback