Ruth Rendell. (2007). End in Tears: A Wexford Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Ruth Rendell. 2007. End in Tears: A Wexford Novel. Books on Tape.

Ruth Rendell, End in Tears: A Wexford Novel. Books on Tape, 2007.

Ruth Rendell. End in Tears: A Wexford Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.

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   • bioText: Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.
     
     JOHN LEE's highly innovative work in the fields of emotional intelligence, anger management, and emotional regression has made him an in-demand consultant, teacher, trainer, coach, and speaker. His contributions in the fields of recovery, relationships, men’s issues, spirituality, parenting, and creativity have put him in the national spotlight for over 20 years. Lee has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, Barbara Walters’ The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has been interviewed by Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other national magazines and radio talk shows.For over 25 years, Lee has conducted private and group sessions on a variety of issues working with men, women, couples, and families. He lectures, gives workshops and trainings in cities all over the world, delivering sensitive, yet sophisticated material to audiences in a humorous and simple way everyone can understand. His lectures have been branded as “hilariously entertaining, deeply compassionate, yet filled with ‘tell it like it is!’”Lee served as a professor at the University of Texas and at the University of Alabama before becoming a writer, bestselling author, life coach, and personal consultant. He currently resides on breathtaking Lookout Mountain in Mentone, Alabama with his three happy dogs.
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At first there was no reason to link the killings. The first one, months earlier, seemed totally random: a lump of concrete pushed off an overpass onto a passing car. By contrast, the gruesome bludgeoning death of Amber Marshalson, returning home late from a night out clubbing with friends, was obviously calculated. The killer had been seen waiting for the girl in a nearby wood. But when Chief Inspector Wexford discovers that Amber had been the driver right behind the crushed car—and that she’d been driving a silver Honda, while the car in front of her was a gray Honda—he knows that someone wanted the teenager dead badly enough to kill twice to get the job done. And as it turns out, this murderer’s plans are only just getting underway. Can Wexford unravel the complex knots that connect these murders in time to save future victims? Or is he, as he begins to fear, losing his touch and fast becoming a relic of another time?
Long beloved by readers for her deft weaving of wonderfully meticulous characterization, dark humor, and trenchant social commentary into gripping and fast-paced plots, Ruth Rendell is in top form with End in Tears. Taking off from the first page with back-to-back murders and ending with one of Wexford’s own officers in mortal danger, End in Tears touches on issues of class, race, parenthood, aging, and gender roles as it brings the traditional British whodunit into the twenty-first century.
Also available as a Random House AudioBook, Large Print edition, and eBook

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   • source: Time
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     "The best mystery writer in the English-speaking world."

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   • source: People
   • content: "One of the most remarkable novelists of her generation."
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   • source: The New Yorker
   • content: "Her clear shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."
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   • source: P. D. James
   • content: "She has transcended her genre by her remarkable imaginative power to explore and illuminate the dark corners of the human psyche."
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   • source: Scott Turow
   • content: "Surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language."
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   • source: Tony Hillerman
   • content: "Those who haven't read her books have missed something unique and wonderful."
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   • source: Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Ruth Rendell is my dream writer. Her prose style, so intricate in design and supple in execution, has the disquieting intimacy of an alien touch in the dark."
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   • source: Patricia Cornwell
   • content: "Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time. She magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers and mesmerizing."
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   • content: John Lee's great achievement in reading Ruth Rendell's twentieth novel about Chief Inspector Wexford is his ability to draw the reader into the story. Lee provides a fully voiced performance of the book, differentiating the characters effectively; furthermore, his use of silence, of pace, of even his ever precise diction manages always to make the story intriguing. Lee's accomplishment is all the more worthwhile since the novel, while as insightful about human nature as Rendell's other Wexford books, is a bit straightforward and unsurprising in its plotting. The mystery centers around the relationship between the murders of two teenaged girls, one a recent mother and the other recently pregnant. Lee sounds truly interested in the story, and in some indefinable way that compels the listener's attention, too. G.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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      May 29, 2006
      Bestseller Rendell's riveting new novel in her Chief Inspector Wexford series (The Babes in the Wood
      , etc.) links two disparate worlds—a child-surrogacy ring and the construction trade. A teenage mother, Amber Marshalson, is found dead in the grass outside her home in Kingsmarkham, her skull crushed by a piece of brick. A short time later, Amber's pregnant friend, Megan Bartlow, turns up murdered in a seedy, about-to-be-rehabbed Victorian row house. Suspicions center on a tall man wearing a hooded fleece jacket. Against this sinister backdrop stands Wexford, who's in lion-in-winter mode. He's irked and perplexed by modern life, by the casual way young girls conceive babies, by the sprawl devouring the once-lush Sussex countryside, even by his own fractious family. But he never loses the anger and dedication that propel him to solve crimes and understand evil. While Rendell fans may find this not quite up to the level of her most recent non-Wexford, Thirteen Steps Down
      (2005), they should be well satisfied.

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      April 1, 2007
      Rendell continues her Chief Inspector Wexford mystery series with her latest work. Spoiled teenage mother Amber Marshalson is found dead in the woods after a night out, and Wexford discovers there had been an attempt on Amber's life months earlier. How Amber was killed is evident, but the complicated why and by whom are what Wexford and his partners seek to uncover. Subplots abound and touch upon a variety of topics, including surrogacy, teenage pregnancy, and other assorted and dramatic family and societal issues. The listener needs solid concentration to keep abreast of everything that happens here, particularly as reader John Lee's characterizations tend to be similar. However, Rendell provides numerous interesting and nuanced characters throughout.End in Tears is well done and consistently compelling as the listener learns more about the chief inspector. Recommended for mystery/suspense/thriller collections.Nicole A. Cooke, Montclair State Univ. Lib., NJ

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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    • content: Two murders, with two unrelated victims. Or are they? It falls to Chief Inspector Wexford to find the link between the death of a woman killed by a chunk of concrete dropped off an overpass and the vicious bludgeoning of teenager Amber Marshalson. Concluding that the first death was the result of a failed attempt on Amber's life only raises more questions--and adds to the list of suspects. Rendell's serpentine plot and quirky characters are well served by Daniel Gerroll's narration. His wry rendering of Wexford is a highlight, and he conveys the dispositions of all of the characters without apparent effort. He's also adept at emphasizing the story's grace notes of dark humor. C.E.W. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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Long beloved by readers for her...

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   • value: Grand Master Award
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   • value: Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award
3. • source: Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine
   • value: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Book

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