Joy M. (jem) reviewed Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Chief Inspector Wexford, Bk 15) on + 214 more book reviews
Starts with a bang! Every page is worth reading.
Cheryl (Toni) J. (toni) reviewed Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Chief Inspector Wexford, Bk 15) on + 351 more book reviews
The crime under investigation--the murder of monstrous old novelist Davina Flory, her younger MP husband Harvey Copeland, and her daughter Naomi, along with the shooting of granddaughter Daisy--is thick with mysteries beyond whodunit: What were the two criminals looking for beyond a bit of jewelry? How did they make their escape? What's happened to Naomi's business partner, Joanne Garland, and what's her connection to Daisy's father, George (Gunner) Jones? What links the killings to a fatal bank-robbery a year before? Wexford, ruefully treating Daisy as a replacement for his beloved actress daughter Sheila, who's deserted him for an obnoxious, postmodern novelist, patiently sifts the stories of the large cast, setting off the string of quiet, continuous, steadily deepening revelations of character that are the hallmark of Rendell's best work.
Bill M. (knight) reviewed Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Chief Inspector Wexford, Bk 15) on + 683 more book reviews
This one Rendell's darkest and most subtle character studies...with precision detail and detachment she puts the unspeakable into words.
