Some Lie And Some Die

by Ruth Rendell
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The eighth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format.

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When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. The victim’s face has been pulped by the back-end of a bottle, but who, in this atmosphere of peace and love, could be capable of such violence?The body is that of local girl turned stripper Dawn Stonor, but it is the unlikely link between this ill-fated girl and the mysterious folk-singer Zeno Vedast that pique Wexford’s interest.Through a web of lies and deceit Wexford uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier, and he realises that never has he witnessed a murder of such desperate passion…

Editorial 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

"Through the quality of her writing she's raised the game of the crime novel in this country" - Peter James

"Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched" - The Times

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