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Vanity Dies Hard

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Eva Haddon
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Wealthy Alice Whittaker is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her. If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of it. Then the handsome Mr Fielding enters her life, ten years younger than Alice and they marry. But when Alice starts to feel sick -- a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake, her husband seems determined to keep her at home. Is he just being a doting husband who wants his wife to get better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta? Unwell though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril

©2010 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Crime Thrillers Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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Rendall at her most gentle. A very satisfying listen, a quite a different side to her writing.

Rendall at her most gentle.

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I can’t understand the negative reviews of this book. I loved every minute of it. The narration was brilliant and totally appropriate for the storyline. I’ve read many Ruth Rendell novels. She has many dysfunctional characters but this novel was more reminiscent of Agatha Christie at her finest. A twisty, keep you guessing plot,set in the mid sixties with characters similar to Christie’s country village settings. As you would expect from Rendell, the characterisation is drawn in greater depth with exquisite descriptions of places and seasons. In my opinion this is a throughly enjoyable listen which I highly recommend.

Ruth Rendell meets Agatha Christie!

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Really enjoyed this on a long drive. Ruth Rendell's usual satisfying story weaving, evoking of a whole world & characters with depth, cleverlt playing with reader expectations. Any ever so slightly contrived aspects of the surprise ending were forgivable/ earned by the otherwise skillful building of the story. And nothing too nasty...

Excellent

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Superbly written and, even though I guessed part of it quite early on, the perspective of the narrative was intriguing and I just had yo keep listening. Beautifully narrated too.

superb writing

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Really enjoyed this. Full of suspense. Keeps you guessing right til the end. Good Narrator too.

Loved this book

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