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The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
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What's it About?
In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For that summer of 1944, the subterranean space becomes their “secret garden,� where the friends play games, tell their fortunes, and perform for each other.
Six decades later, construction workers make a grisly discovery beneath a house on the same land: a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the hands make national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their long ago days for a detective. Then the police investigation sputters, and the threads holding their friendship together begin to unravel. Is the truth buried amid the tangled relationships of these aging men and women and their memories? Will it emerge before it’s too late?
What Did I Think?
From the above description it sounds interesting doesn't it? In all honesty I'm not sure if it was the story or the horrible voice of the person reading it? The story dragged on and on as the husband and wife discussed their childhood secret meeting place and then they discussed it some more with two other of their friends. I just wanted them to shut up and get on with the story. I have read Ruth Rendell books over the years and loved them so the only thing I can conclude is that aliens must have abducted Ms. Rendell and sent a body double to write this book along with one of their kind to read it.
