Murder Being Once Done: an enthralling and engrossing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell (Wexford, 7)

Murder Being Once Done: an enthralling and engrossing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell (Wexford, 7)

by RuthRendell (Author)

Synopsis

The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It seems fitting that the final resting place of a girl's body should be in a graveyard. But this is no peaceful burial. This is a brutal murder scene. Under strict orders from his doctor to indulge in no criminal investigation, Wexford is sent to London for a break away from the pressures of the Kingsmarkham police force. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery. Despite opposition from Howard and his team, Wexford is drawn to the case. And when he unearths Loveday's connection to a religious cult whose leader was imprisoned for sexual absue, he relentlessly pursues this sinister new lead...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 04 Feb 2010

ISBN 10: 009953486X
ISBN 13: 9780099534860
Book Overview: The seventh book in the bestselling Chief Inspector Wexford series. Perfect for both collectors and few fans of award-winning crime novelist Ruth Rendell, who ha written classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down.

Media Reviews
One of the best novelists writing today * P.D. James *
The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time * Patricia Cornwell *
Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world * Ian Rankin *
[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age * Herald *
Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels. With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015