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    Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery
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    Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery
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    Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery

    Written by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Christopher Ravenscroft

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where she'd been or why she'd been away. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back into the community, adding to the already heightened fears of parents in the Muriel Campden Estate where he lives. Then the child of a wealthy executive disappears, and not long after, a suspect in the kidnapping is found stabbed to death.

    Chief Inspector Wexford is charged with solving the mysterious disappearances, protecting a pedophile, and catching a killer. As he searches for connections, he finds himself focusing on domestic violence. His daughter, Sylvia, a social worker, has come to work nearby in a refuge for battered women called The Hide. Her marriage is also strained, although her husband has never raised a hand to her. Others in Kingsmarkham are not so fortunate. As Wexford moves closer to the truth, he confronts the discomfiting lesson that when it comes to the inner life of families, justice is rarely as straightforward as the letter of the law.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780375417061
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    Harm Done: An Inspector Wexford Mystery
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    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

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    Reviews for Harm Done

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    • 3/5
      Domestic violence.
    • 3/5
      She lost interest in wexford and burden as time went on. But part of the rating is for the abridgement because I remember the book well and this didnt do it justice
    • 2/5
      Just bleh. I've liked some of her other stuff, but this one seemed to ramble.
    • 5/5
      Another favorite..this is the 1st time doing this bia audio but I had read it and it is full of twists.
    • 4/5
      Rendell manages to mix a lot of social commentary into her detective series featuring Inspector Wexford. I found the plot, especially the section involving the pedophile, very difficult to follow. That didn't matter too much, however, as the reader is quickly inveigled into considering larger moral and social questions in this work. Good job.
    • 3/5
      My first Ruth Rendell book.
      Like Inspector Wexford.
      Liked the book.
      Will read more by her.
      British mysteries rock!
      Read in 2004.
    • 5/5
      An excellent mystery by my favorite mystery writer.
    • 5/5
      Inspector Wexford forges ahead, this time into three ambiguous reaches of the criminal landscape, of which two are particularly nasty and particularly ambiguous. This complex novel interweaves three stories -- the abduction and then return of two young women, the return of a convicted pedophile to his home after he has served his time, and the case of an abused wife that finally ends in murder. All of this, of course, is interlaced with developments in Wexford's own life, in this case mostly having to do with his relationship with his daughter Sylvia. I won't go into detail, to avoid playing the spoiler, but two of the stories raise really difficult questions about right and wrong. How many detective writers make you think, while simultaneously amusing you and producing a bang up mystery? My only regret about Ruth Rendell is that I don't have more of her books still left to read.
    • 3/5
      There was a lot happening in this book, which slightly made up for the fact that the 'main mystery' was quite poor. It was unravelled as usual by Wexford and I found myself thinking, 'Eh? So that's it, is it?'. Other strands of the plot dealt with the (at the time) rather topical issue of vigilantes tracking down suspected paedophiles. The novel takes a good look at both sides of this issue, and whilst I had no children when I read this book, I have now and I suspect I would see things differently. A thought provoking read, not necessarily the best whodunnit.
    • 4/5
      Rendell manages to mix a lot of social commentary into her detective series featuring Inspector Wexford. I found the plot, especially the section involving the pedophile, very difficult to follow. That didn't matter too much, however, as the reader is quickly inveigled into considering larger moral and social questions in this work. Good job.
    • 5/5
      Excellent development of characters, realistic depiction of social problems embedded in mystery, unusual plot lines. Another excellent Rendell effort.
    • 2/5
      As I started listening, I realized I'd heard this book before. I kept at it because I couldn't remember all the book's many characters and subplots. I normally don't do this but found it much easier to follow while multi-tasking. This Inspector Wexford mystery was still enjoyable the second time around. It's always interesting to remember the many continuing characters and running plots in the Wexford books. I may re-read, that is, re-hear, more books now.
    • 2/5
      As I started listening, I realized I'd heard this book before. I kept at it because I couldn't remember all the book's many characters and subplots. I normally don't do this but found it much easier to follow while multi-tasking. This Inspector Wexford mystery was still enjoyable the second time around. It's always interesting to remember the many continuing characters and running plots in the Wexford books. I may re-read, that is, re-hear, more books now.
    • 2/5
      Character confusion and a weak ending but in my opinion one of her better books
    • 3/5
      Good Wexford, I find it hard to distinguish between the characters on the Muriel Camperdown estate but love the development between Wexford and his daughter Sylvia. (And the allusion to The Franchise Affair).
    • 5/5
      This is one of those books that grabs you by the lapels and yanks you in. How ambivalent would you be if you were a cop who had to protect a paroled child molester?