A Demon In My View [Import] [Paperback]

Ruth Rendell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Arrow Books; First Thus edition (1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099148609
• ISBN-13: 978-0099148609
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.5 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,540,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, eye opening, suspenseful page turner, November 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Demon in My View (Paperback)

This book won Rendell the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for 1976 (the most important crime fiction awards in Great Britain.) And I can see why. Extremely well crafted, this book stays with you long after reading it. And you'll read it pretty quickly, because this is a tough one to put down. As a longtime Hercule Poirot/Miss Marple/Agatha Christie fan, I was so happy to discover the Inspector Wexford mysteries, and have read most of these. But this is no Wexford mystery. I was so disturbed by the subject matter, that after I read it, I put it out of sight for a while, but it never went out of mind, so be prepared. This is Rendell, one of the best mystery writers out there today, at her best.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Knocked Me Out, March 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: A Demon in My View (Paperback)

This was one of the first Rendell books that I read, and it absolutely knocked me out. I was recovering from a cold, lying in bed and enjoying it nicely, when it took a turn that made me sit up straight and go, "SAY WHAT? " I forgot the cold, forgot everything but following this hypnotic tale to its strange end. I've now read it three times, and each time it got more impressive. By present standards of sex and violence, it may seem understated. Somehow, in these days of excess, that just makes it more powerful. Rendell is the empress of the accidental, the queen of chaos theory. Something tiny happens, and something else tiny happens, and somehow, inevitably, chance becomes destiny or whatever passes for it. Oh, her books are lovely, dark, and deep. Open this one up, and you'll have miles to go before you sleep.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Fine read from Rendell, April 14, 2002

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Ernest Joselovitz (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Demon in My View (Paperback)

I have never read a boring book by Ruth Rendell. This one centers on a quiet and unnoticed psychopath. As she often does, Rendell places two stories side by side, and brings them together in a mind-blowing resolution. Here, the story of one man's romance with a woman married to a violent mate, and a psychopath brought to the edge by seemingly tiny cirucmstances. It may be a bit schematic - two men who coinicdentally have the same first initial and last name, a woman who leaves her violent husband just as the other story has reached a climactic crisis - but it is so much fun, so imaginative and not-quite-predictable, and such a fitting reader-revenge - that it is forgiveable.

It does seem: you can always count on Rendell.