Make Death Love Me: a nightmarish mystery of desire and deceit from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell
Make Death Love Me: a nightmarish mystery of desire and deceit from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell book cover

Make Death Love Me: a nightmarish mystery of desire and deceit from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell

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From Library Journal Originally published in 1979, this grand tale is timeless and wonderfully ironic, as is Rendell's strength. In this intricately plotted novel we meet ordinary people, like the harried and unhappy bank manager Alan Groombridge, his teller Joyce, and the two inept bank robbers who take them out of their doldrums for all time. The story progresses along two lines, which of course converge at the end, violently and unexpectedly. The facts of the matter, as interpreted by the police and press after the final scene, are not at all what really happened, and it is somehow satisfying to be in on the truth when these worthies are not. The reading by Ric Jerrom is excellent, light and well paced (and British), with just the right touch of surprise, bewilderment, confusion, and terror. A fine addition to any popular collection; sure to be enjoyed.DHarriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Features & Highlights

  • The
  • potent and murky impulses of desire, greed, obsession and fear combine with deadly results in this compelling psychological thriller from
  • multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell
  • . Perfect for readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon.
  • 'A fine novel of suspense' --
  • Financial Times
  • 'Rendell's psychological insights are so absorbing, it's easy to forget what a
  • superb plotter she is' --
  • The Times
  • 'Ruth Rendell's books are not only whodunits but whydunits, uncovering the
  • motive roots of murder' --
  • Mail on Sunday
  • 'Pretty much perfect' -- ***** Reader review
  • 'Had me glued from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review
  • 'Loved this book, a real page turner with a really good end!' -- ***** Reader review
  • 'A superb work which, as always, keeps you gripped from beginning to end!!' -- ***** Reader review
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  • Alan Groombridge
  • is trapped. Husband to a woman he doesn't like, father to two children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny branch of
  • the Anglian-Victoria bank
  • , he is doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine.All that keeps him afloat is his one fantasy
  • : stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom
  • - one year in which to live a different sort of life.But one day the bank is robbed, the manager and cashier disappear and what was once a place of dull and dreary repetition becomes the scene of
  • a brutal, chilling nightmare that might never end...

Customer Reviews

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Why can't publishers edit properly any more?

Ruth Rendell's novels are excellent but please do not buy Kindle versions, unless you are a user of US English. Do not buy any Kindle book if mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation annoy you, as they do me. The standard of editing is abysmal and seems to have been carried out by people who have acquired English as a fifth or sixth language.
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Make death laugh

The usual gripping plot that Rendell conceives; the story is thrilling but you finally come to the conclusion that such amount of foolish persons reunited around a central topic, and making the most absurd decisions, is a bit of an exageration. Anyway, as fiction goes, anything is possible. Entertaining, agile, easy to read.
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One of the best of Ruth Rendell's!

I read this per the recommendation of "Crime Squad's Ruth Rendell Top Ten". The #1 novel, a Barbara Vine novel, has been taking me a while to get into. This novel was listed as #2, and I just finished it pretty quickly-- so smoothly woven, omniscient narrator so perfect for each character, whether major or minior. There'll never be a better crime novelist than Ruth Rendell...
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Five Stars

Aaaaaa+++++++
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Make Death Love Me

This is an excellent psychological thriller; so much happening so quickly in the sad lives of multiple broken characters. Despite the eventual end of the story, no one achieved any semblance of what
they hoped to acquire. Unbelievable page-turner!!!
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Entertaining Ride!

Oh the tangled web of lies we weave! Characters are very believable and flawed. Some are crazy, but Rendell's style never fails to keep me glued to the page.
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love her books!!!!!!

Ruth Rendell has a mind like no other! Never ceases to surprise me..I love her way of telling a story...well developed characters and i almost never want her books to end!!!
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Five Stars

Rendell at her most engaging story telling. Keeps you guessing.
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Five Stars

great book.
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Be Careful What You Wish For.

Another great book by Ruth Rendell. A bank manager becomes a bank robber mainly to get away from his family. Every family has at least one member that is hard to take but all of them? Almost everyone would want to get away from this family.

He decides to settle for just one year of a different kind of life, maybe even find love. So, that is the amount he will take.

When a real bank robbery occurs, he takes this amount for himself. It is thought the robbers kidnapped him and he starts his new life. Right or wrong, you really want this to work out for him. Does it?

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