The face of trespass - Hardcover

Rendell, Ruth.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091176808 ISBN 13: 9780091176808

Publisher: Doubleday, 1974

Synopsis

Award-winning novelist Ruth Rendell presents a chilling novel of obsession and violence.

Two years ago, he had been a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla—the rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into violence had just begun....

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091176808
• ISBN 13: 9780091176808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1