Ruth Rendell

Have taken up yet another Ruth Rendell mystery, of which I've probably read 15-20 by now. Definitely best in class.  In times of drive and great yearning I find that the small town life on which she so thrives stifles me as it does her characters, and I sense that reading these books is just marking time on the way to death.  But now, as the crisis drags on interminably and so much of the future remains unsettled, there is great comfort in her ordered universe and the little irruptions that rend its fabric, and in the dutiful workings of Inspectors Wexford and Burden, who bring resolution to all.