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Judgement in Stone
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers.
Book Details
- Publisher: Amereon Limited
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1998
- Pages: 183
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.87in - 5.81in - 0.81in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9780891908883
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural• Thrillers - Psychological
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What people are saying
Jason Furman is an economist and professor.
@five_books A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. Also the best opening: "Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.... As a result of her crime, Eunice Parchman’s disability was made known not to a mere family... but to the whole country." https://t.co/tgfPIPXyAS
Hariett Gilbert is a writer and host of BBC's World Book Club..
@russell_kane You could try Simenon's non-Maigret novels, especially The Train. Or, if you like dark humour, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure. And someone else has suggested Ruth Rendell; I'd plump for her masterpiece, A Judgement in Stone.
#LittleDeaths #OtherWomen Longlisted: #WomensPrize, #DEP17, #CWA Gold Dagger, @TheakstonsCrime Crime Novel of the Year.
@acaseforbooks @RowanHLB Thank you so much, Anna! My recommendations for literary crime are: - PD James (The Murder Room or Original Sin - OS is about a murder in a publishing house) - Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone (a short, perfect whydunnit) - @JDawsonwriter’s Fred and Edie or The Crime Writer
Praise for this book
"Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such literary voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime."-Los Angeles Times
"It will be an amazing achievement if [Rendell] ever writes a better book."- Daily Express (London)
"Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."- Time
What people are saying
Jason Furman is an economist and professor.
@five_books A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. Also the best opening: "Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.... As a result of her crime, Eunice Parchman’s disability was made known not to a mere family... but to the whole country." https://t.co/tgfPIPXyAS
Hariett Gilbert is a writer and host of BBC's World Book Club..
@russell_kane You could try Simenon's non-Maigret novels, especially The Train. Or, if you like dark humour, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure. And someone else has suggested Ruth Rendell; I'd plump for her masterpiece, A Judgement in Stone.