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A Sight for Sore Eyes

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: David Threlfall
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About this listen

Two damaged children: Teddy Brex, whom no-one loved, and so found it easier to relate to objects or things which never let him down; and Francine Hill, who was discovered sitting by the body of her mother, her skirt red with blood. She couldn’t tell the police or her father anything to help track down the killer.... Children grow up in different ways. Teddy became a handsome young man, Francine was beautiful - a sight for sore eyes. But it was death that brought them together.

©2010 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Exciting Scary Mystery

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I could not stop listening to this enthralling and enjoyable book. A must for everyone

Ruth Rendell at her best

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Wonderfully alive characters playing out their various futures towards a series of tense and convincing endings. You can see all of them in technicolour, listen in on their thinking patterns, understand why they do what they do almost by accident, even the central villain. But the foreboding almost made me put it down and run away, though glad I didn't as all is satisfactorily concluded, in a way.

Long-running unfold of fate

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Loved it as usual, did not want it to end, brilliant can't wait to read the next one

Excellent

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Brilliantly written but more so read. David Threlfall is superb…one of my favourite actors and while quite monotone in delivery for once this is just right for this book …building suspense in just the right way. I don’t know why he gets that delivery right and others don’t but with him it’s superb. His classical training perhaps …his Shakespearien acting experience perhaps, but it is balanced, well delivered and gives an edge to the whole story; so often I hear this kind of delivery and it’s almost as if the person reading hasn’t read the book, like they have no idea where the suspense should lie and it infuriates me.
This is a gripping book and the first of RR’s that I’ve listened to outside of tte Wexford stories and this is many times better in my mind to those. Clever, gripping, beautifully read and with a brilliant ending. Can’t recommend this highly enough.

Brilliant

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Brilliant story with twists and turns. Couldn’t have predicted it if I tried! Would recommend.

Unpredictable!

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