A review by em_beddedinbooks
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell

3.0

I usually love the dark mysteries of Ruth Rendell which reveal the varying faces of perverted human nature. But this one was a bit too slow for my taste. This is an Inspector Wexford mystery where the ageing detective Wexford is confronted with the death of a 50 year old lady who was stabbed to death in a narrow lane while she was visiting her ailing father in rural England (I forgot the name of the village). There is no clue as to the killer. After many false starts, finally the inspector is able to solve the mystery, which was a surprise to me as well. It was a good book, but somewhere in the middle there were a monotonous few pages.