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Bookends

Bookends: The Saint Zita Society, by Ruth Rendell

18 August 2012

4:00 PM

18 August 2012

4:00 PM

Sometimes it seems as if Ruth Rendell’s heart just isn’t in all that killing any more. Certainly, her latest book, The Saint Zita Society (Hutchinson, £12.99), works best as a portrait of modern London, sharing many of the characteristics of novels like John Lanchester’s Capital and Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December.

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