Author: Ruth Rendell
Genre: British Detectives
Status: Read
Presence of Cats: Yes, there is a cat next door.
Butterball Says:
Woe is me! For now that I have read my first Ruth Rendell novel, I face the fact that a healthy portion of my feline life has passed me by. Oh, but those years would have been vastly improved in quality by the presence of Ruth Rendell's fine words.
That is to say, if all her books are as truly marvelous as Adam and Eve and Pinch Me.
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me follows a number of compelling characters, including Minty--a dear girl facing some rather distinctive mental health concerns. She is seduced by a charmer the reader at once observes to be utterly snakelike. Unfortunately our dear Minty does not have sufficient life experience nor does she possess the powers of perception to view this fact for herself. She finds herself completely taken in by him.
When the multiply-married charmer turns up dead, we are hardly surprised.What is rather more surprising is that the murder in Adam and Eve and Pinch Me does not take place until nearly the middle of the book. This give the reader a chance to gain sufficient insight into the lives and personalities of a considerable cast of characters. There are certainly enough suspects, and yet the reader need not guess who committed this crime. We watch the murder take place before our very eyes. The question remains: will the police catch on? And how, precisely, will they track down the killer?
An author never dies, but always lives on in the works they create. I highly recommend Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, and I foresee many more Ruth Rendells in my future!
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