A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell is one of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, which is a list published by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), and one of The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, as compiled by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), it is also on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell is one of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, which is a list published by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), and one of The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, as compiled by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), it is also on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

10 out of 10

 

I have read Live Flesh https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/live-flesh-by-ruth-rendell-is-one-of.html by Ruth Rendell and did not like it, so now I have to wonder why, since Judgement In Stone was fabulous, it creates a problem for the next read, which is Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth, I have enjoyed his Morality Play

 

It is quite surprising – now that I have written this, I realize that I have disagreed with many rankings lately – to see that Judgment in Stone is only 1324th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – this is one of the best books I have read lately, it kept me connected, waiting to see what happens, although we know from the start…

No need for a spoiler alert, but you may assume there is one, just in case, I have had some MAGA complaints, members of the cult of the Orange Fool, it may even be the reason why I was banned for some time, they disliked by own disgust with that Goodfella https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/goodfellas-based-on-book-by-nicholas.html who has made billions while in the highest office

 

First, Ruth Rendell tells us that the Coverdale family is killed, well, the father, his wife, and two children, the latter are nearly adults, then, I realized I saw the spectacular La Ceremonie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and with magnificent Isabelle Huppert in one of the leading roles, I must see it again, and then I will post a note on it

Eunice is this terrible woman who is hired as maid by Jacqueline Coverdale, without knowing her gruesome past – she had killed her father, she is illiterate, now, the last part is just very inconvenient, if not disqualifying, but being a killer, would be reason to stay away, and then there are instances when the tragedy could be avoided

 

Indeed, I keep referring to Malice Aforethought https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/malice-aforethought-by-anthony-berkeley.html where we have the same outstanding introduction, the first line tells readers who are the killer and the victim, in Judgement in Stone, we are told periodically that the outcome could have been avoided

For instance, Melinda Coverdale has to decide if she joins her boyfriend, maybe I should say lover, or she would stay at home, one choice is a dead end – what grated me somewhat, in what is anyway a perfect oeuvre, was the insistence with which we were told that Eunice hated the printed word, then maybe there is something else…

 

To have one crazy woman is feasible, but to get the two together seemed a bit against the odds, they are psychopaths, and meet in this village, for the definition of psychopath I think of Tal Ben Shahar https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-pursuit-of-perfect-by-tal-ben-shahar.html this is one of my Top 200 Favorite Books now

 

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