Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3412615 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 6
• Binding: Audio Cassette

Synopsis
The clumsy efforts of two amateur bank robbers give bank manager Alan Groombridge a chance to realize his dreams of trading a dull life for passion and adventure, but his conscience soon gets in the way.

Customer Reviews

Marvellous!
Nominated for the American Edgar Award for Best Crime novel of the year in 1980, this is one of Rendell's marvels.

Less harsh, gritty, than some of her other novels, it is detailed, has a wonderful restrained violence, and psychologically brilliant. With a trademark shock at the end!

Make Death Love Me is a very very fine novel indeed - I reccomend it to all

Not among her best, but nor among her worst either
I would describe this book as an avarage Ruth Rendell novel. Having read most of her non-Wexford novels, I think the ones she wrote from the mid-seventies and onwards are worth reading and she gets only better with time.

The theme of this book is a bit similar to 'One Across, Two Down' in that the protagonist tries to escape a life of tedious routine with a family he doesn't like. The protagonist's grumpy old father-in-law who thinks an army take-over of the country and reintroduction of capital punishment (preferably with a pole-axe) will solve the nations problems, is quite a laugh.

I won't comment on the plot because I think that will spoil the book, but I can say that, as in many (if not most) of her books, there are two stories running in paralell and converging.