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Ruth Rendell can never be accused of writing cozy English mysteries. Even her more traditional detective novels starring Inspector Reginald Wexford are set in a gritty, contemporary Britain beset by unemployment, racial tension, and urban crime. In the absorbing and timely Road Rage, ecoterrorists protesting a new highway bypass take five hostages -- including Wexford's wife.
Dick Lochte
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Davina Porter reads this somewhat successful mystery. The title is deceptive since the book (LJ 5/1/97) is not about Los Angeles-style confrontation on the freeway but about English-style tradition vs. progress. Also, it has too many characters to be a really elegant mystery. The cast includes about a half dozen cops, an equal number of quasi-left-wing terrorists, a score of suspects, and who knows how many witnesses, innocent bystanders, etc. Wisely, reader Porter doesn't attempt to create enough voices to individualize, rather characterizing by type and class. This makes for a sometimes quite confusing audio. However, the plot and solution are good, if depressing. It is easy to see why mystery novelists are fascinated with left-wing terror. Their audience can so much more easily identify with liberals turned radical than they can with fascists or extreme nationalists. That Rendell (A Demon in My View, Audio Reviews, LJ 5/1/93) skillfully reveals finally the instigators as NIMBYs, not tree huggers, takes some of the edge from the politics but still leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the listener. Recommended where British mysteries are popular.APreston Hoffman, Connelly Springs, NC
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Road Rage
Seller: Secondhand Prose, Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
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Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library copy, it has stamps and stickers. Overall in okay shape, still with all of it's cassettes. Seller Inventory # ABE-1578190331081