Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Master of the Moorby Ruth Rendell
British Mystery (377) Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I think it,s well written with some interesting psychological twists. I rated it 3 instead of 4 just that it,s more of a 3 in terms of books that I like. ( ) A young woman’s body is found strangled with head shorn on Vangmoor, a bleak and chilling place. A local villager, Stephen Whalby, is *the* self-proclaimed authority on the moors and when a second woman disappears there, he is only too eager to help the police with their search, especially as it appears that a stranger is trying to assert control over what he considers to be *his* moors…."Master of the Moor" is a stand-alone novel from Ruth Rendell, published in 1982 but feeling quite timeless in its storytelling, which depicts an already troubled man slowly going off the rails entirely. Recommended. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGoldmann (44566) Awards
Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . . No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |