Reviews for The Third Person

The average rating for The Third Person based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-22 00:00:00 Irving Fong Ruth Rendell is similar in my opinion to Susan Hill. In that she has numerous short stories and then some longer novels dedicated to a specific detective (that I personally am not very interested in reading). As with Susan Hill, Ruth Rendell can write terrifying short stories, whereas hers are more ghostly, and Rendell's are more psychological. Either way they both scare me, and Rendell's collection of short stories here does justice. The best story by far is the title story 'The Copper Peacock' which explains how a cleaner gives a writer a ghastly looking bookmark in the shape of a peacock as a gift, and turns up at work each time with mysterious bad bruises on her body. 'Mother's Help' is also a rather scary story about the effects of unruly children. A woman takes on looking after a couple's child, and slowly falls in love with the father. When the son mistakenly crashes the car when he is left in it alone, the father comes up with the perfect way of disposing of his wife. Something very eerie about Rendell's stories, you are always holding your breath waiting for something to happen, and then on the last page you let out a sigh of relief and feel glad you are only reading and not living the story.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-24 00:00:00 Kyle Colfer Bettie's Books