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Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror
Alone in the four-poster, she glanced up from her book and saw in the mirror a little old woman sitting beside her. She shut her eyes, looked again, saw an empty bed, neatly made with with fresh linen. The hotel staff, summoned by her screams, found no one, not even herself.
— Ruth Rendell, from A Spot of Folly, 2017
Short tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. The above is the first story in its entirety.
#writing#fiction#ruth rendell#mirrors#a spot of folly#never sleep in a bed facing a mirror#psychological#horror#madness#quotes#magic#murder#short stories
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I bought two Ruth Rendell novels from a charity shop. I’ve just finished one and loved it very much.
Don’t you love it when you discover an author you’ve never read before?
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𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑙, “𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑑“
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Ruth Rendell covers with artwork by the amazing Mel Odom.
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New stuff in my used book store!
Just spent a couple hours updating my used book store. Some stuff is expensive, that means it's rare.
(The 1980 version!)
(comes with bonus ex-library book!)
Please read the product description to learn about the item you're buying. You can find these books here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/talesresold
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Quotable – Ruth Rendell
Find out more about the author here
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'La cérémonie' – Claude Chabrol's crisp psychological thriller on Criterion Channel
The critical reputation of Claude Chabrol, one of the founding brothers of the nouvelle vague and the director whose adoration of Alfred Hitchcock led to a career specializing in thrillers and psychological dramas, has risen and fallen through the decades.
La cérémonie (France, 1995), his adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone, revived both his critical reputation and his commercial…
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#1995#A Judgement in Stone#Claude Chabrol#Criterion Channel#DVD#France#Isabelle Huppert#Jacqueline Bisset#Jean Pierre Cassel#La cérémonie#La ceremonie#Ruth Rendell#Sandrine Bonnaire#Virginie Ledoyen#VOD
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Ruth Rendell (who also wrote under the name Barbara Vine) is my favorite mystery writer. She was prolific and brilliant. I am currently going back and rereading all of her work. Does anybody else take great joy in rereading your favorite books over and over?
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No Night Is Too Long by Barbara Vine
Keeping Up Appearances: "Skis"
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Bo-bo-book haul! 🕵️♂️🥳
Hit my favorite used bookstore for the first time in a long time and was not disappointed. I might have gone a bit overboard with the mysteries and thrillers. 😅
Finding the Ruth Rendell made my day because Sins of the Father (pubbed in the UK as A New Lease of Death) is insanely hard to find: from what I can tell, only Amazon had it and they wanted $14 for a brand new copy. I liked From Doon with Death and want to continue reading the Inspector Wexford series, but I don't like it enough to spend that much on a copy.
I bought Murder on Bamboo Lane because the main character is a bicycle cop and that's a novelty that I can get behind. 🚴♀️👮♀️
#a test of wills#charles todd#inspector ian rutledge#kris longknife#mike shepherd#murder on bamboo lane#naomi hirahara#ellie rush#bernie rhodenbarr#lawrence block#amber series#roger zelazny#inspector lynley#elizabeth george#inspector wexford#ruth rendell#spencer series#spenser series#spenser: for hire#robert b. parker#cliff janeway#john dunning#chris pavone#brad parks#ruth galloway#elly griffiths#thrillers#mysteries#mystery fiction#science fiction
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A lot of emotions in this one, pent and otherwise. A well-crafted tale.
#princelysome#2022#books i've read#wvdeli#kindle#ruth rendell#chief inspector wexford#no more dying then
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Ruth Rendell - to Fear a Painted Devil - Doubleday - 1965 (jacket design by Ellen Raskin)
#witches#painted devils#occult#vintage#crime#ruth rendell#ellen raskin#to fear a painted devil#doubleday books#1965
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Winding Up the Week #365
An end of week recap
“Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the hearts of people who love reading.”
– Ruth Rendell (born 17th February 1930)
This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep…
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#dewithon24#ReadingWales24#Ali Smith#Books#Brexit Literature#Dewithon#Reading Wales 2024#Ruth Rendell
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― Ruth Rendell, Um Julgamento em Pedra
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Gone, but not Forgotten Redux
In 2013 I posted ‘Gone but not Forgotten’ in which I highlighted authors who made a strong vivid impression on me and who had recently died. Now, ten years later, it is time again to remember those who have left us recently. This is a personal list of authors who may or may not have been all that famous but who had at least one work that I found impressive.
Günter Grass (1927 – 2015) The German…
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