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Ruth Dudley Edwards

    Ruth Dudley Edwards wurde nach ihrem Aufbaustudium in Cambridge und Karrieren in Lehre, Marketing und im öffentlichen Dienst zur freiberuflichen Schriftstellerin. Als Journalistin, Rundfunksprecherin, Historikerin und preisgekrönte Biografin, die in London lebt, ist sie für ihre satirischen Kriminalromane bekannt. Ihre Werke untersuchen gekonnt gesellschaftliche und politische Themen mit Witz und Ironie. Edwards verbindet meisterhaft Spannung mit sozialem Kommentar und schafft so fesselnde und zum Nachdenken anregende Erzählungen.

    Murder in a Cathedral
    The Seven
    Corridors of Death
    Die Versteigerung knapper Ressourcen durch den Staat
    Carnage on the Committee
    • The Seven

      The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

      • 416 Seiten
      • 15 Lesestunden

      On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed.Cutting through the layers of veneration that have seen them regarded unquestioningly as heroes and martyrs by many, Ruth Dudley Edwards provides shrewd yet sensitive portraits of Ireland’s founding fathers. She explores how an incongruous group, which included a communist, visionary Catholic poets and a tobacconist, joined together to initiate an armed rebellion that changed the course of Irish history. Brilliant, thought-provoking and captivatingly told, The Seven challenges us to see past the myths and consider the true character and legacy of the Easter Rising.

      The Seven2016
    • Carnage on the Committee

      • 246 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Amiss asks a baroness to fill the gap when a member of the Literary Prize committee dies in suspicious circumstances

      Carnage on the Committee2004
      3,5
    • In St. Martha's College, Cambridge, rival factions battle over a bequest. One lot wants it spent on fellowships, another on redecoration, a third on a politically-correct ethnics study center. When people start dying, the college calls in Scotland Yard's Jim Milton

      Die Versteigerung knapper Ressourcen durch den Staat2002
      3,4
    • Murder in a Cathedral

      • 221 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear. David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace. Amiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop's problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?

      Murder in a Cathedral1997