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No Night Is Too Long

By: Barbara Vine
Narrated by: Alex Jennings, Shelley Thomson, Samuel West
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Tim Cornish thought he'd gotten away with murder. For months after he'd killed his lover off the Alaskan coast, there hadn't been a word. But then the letters started to arrive. It seems that someone knows what Tim has done....

This compelling thriller delivers such a dark picture of romantic love that murder seems its natural mate. Frightening, suspenseful, and deeply unsettling, No Night Is Too Long is a modern crime masterpiece and will be enjoyed by readers of P. D. James and Ian Rankin.

Barbara Vine is the pen name of Ruth Rendell. Ruth has published 14 novels under the Vine name, two of which, Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet, won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award.

©1994 Barbara Vine (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Fiction

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Critic reviews

"The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together."(Ian Rankin)
"She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire and greed." (Sunday Times)
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I can only quote Ian Rankin as saying that Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine surpasses most Booker Prize winners and shortlists with the astonishing quality of her writing and only didn’t get listed because she was prolific. I thought I had long ago consumed all of her output in print, but somehow I had missed this one.
For many chapters she leads you in to the dark side of a first person narrative and you think you have it all. Then she moves you around. Who is deceiving who? Who is controlling who?
Writing as Barbara Vine, she is so subtle and intense.
With not enough hours in the day, I have a big audio book habit and the readers here are good, but this is actually one that I started to wish I was just absorbing from the page as the whole thing is written as transcripts and letters to be read and I think that would be the very best way to get the most from it.

An astonishingly slow burn masterpiece.

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Bogged down by the protagonist's self indulgent ramblings, dragging the real story out so much that I gave up after chapter 8.Disappointing for a Barbara Vine.

Too long!!

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I very much enjoyed listening to Alex Jennings reading the first part of “no night is too long”. He completely captured the character and it was interesting to see how he developed the persona of Tim as the book went along. I really had no idea of where this was going and very much enjoyed the twists. The other two readers and their stories were also absolutely great and I highly recommend this book. I kept thinking about it long after the story ended.

No night is too long was an excellent book

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A story I have read before but found it so beautifully enhanced by the truly wonderful narration. I was captivated!

Beautiful and thoughtful

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Several hours of self-absorbed waffle, one good and unexpected (though highly unlikely) twist, but every other outcome either predictable or telegraphed. Unlike other reviewers I found the narration flat and detached. This may have been for effect, but the only effect it actually had was to make the characters deeply unsympathetic and self-obsessed. Honestly didn't care what happened to any of them. Definitely not one I'll be keeping to listen to again :(

No Night Is Too Long, but some books are...

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i have read/ listened to so many books and podcasts etc on audible that I have lost count but I can quite safely say this book is the one I've liked best. The detail and the explanation of places capable to actually take you to where the book takes place is as I've never had the pleasure of reading before.
loved it loved loved it !!!!!

absolutely brilliant

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The creation of a character who develops from someone you really don’t like to someone repellent, someone to pity and even care about their outcome is a sign of such masterly writing by this legend of the genre.
My only criticism is to do with the amount of whispering and sudden drops to a quieter voice in the first two-thirds of the book. Might be great for artistic effect, but very difficult if you’re listening in the car.

Enthralled

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such a brilliant story, so different to most. I fell in love with the characters especially Tim and Isabelle. I hope they have a long life together

a unique love affair

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This may be one of ‘Barbara Vine’s’ best - I found it compulsively listenable and it’s setting / characters intriguingly
unconventional. Highly recommended.

Compelling story

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What a clever story. Beautifully crafted, ingeniously constructed, marvellously written. This is what writing should be like. No cliches, no tired aphorisms, no clutter, no fluff. Just an excellent, readable, and absorbing story. It’s the sort of book that keeps you thinking long after you have finished.

Outstanding….it has depth, intrigue, insight, and more twists than the St Bernard Pass.

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