A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell Reviews

A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell: Judge For Yourself. (328 words)
by Glasgow Girl - written on 20.01.01 (Very useful, 294 readings)
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Ruth Rendll is a wizard. A wizard at carrying out research and as a result, a wizard at creating ‘real’, believable characters. Although, in this instance it’s difficult to figure out just how she did that research. If people in the position of the ‘heroine’, Eunice Parchman, are genuinely as ...

Brilliant! (133 words)
by lily7star - written on 18.08.00 (Useful, 71 readings)
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This is one of those books which simultaneously draws and horrifies......you know what happens, and slowly the how and why becomes clear to the you as Rendell slowly but surely weaves her web of suspense...... This is one of her most fascinating books psychologically, and the terrible truth is that the story both enthralls and convinces that ...

A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell: Simply the Best (so far!) (241 words)
by pussycat - written on 12.07.00 (Very useful, 63 readings)
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This has to be the best and most heartrending of all Ruth Rendell's novels. Its basis is simple - a woman takes a job as a live-in cleaner with a rich family and ends up killing them with the assistance of the local religious nutter. Why does she do it? Because they find out that she can't read. If that sounds as if it is an ...

Judged one of her best! (146 words)
by - written on 04.07.00
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This novel is a masterpiece, a short and wonderful story that you can see happening. Rendell has so many strengths in her writing, but the one I find most overwhelming and awe inspiring is her ability to really draw people. To make you understand how ordinary people can find themselves in the most god awful of circumstances. How ...