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The Saint Zita Society

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Carole Boyd
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Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers, and cleaners, decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited to one of these meetings, the others find that he is a strange man, ill at ease with human beings... and then they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his mother.

Dex's most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile-phone service provider, Peach, and he interprets the text messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him - and give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits....

©2012 Ruth Rendell (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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I enjoyed the reading of this book, I enjoyed the story, but all of the time I kept asking, "Who killed the young boys?" This question was a red herring that in my understanding was never answered.

However, the reading of the tale passed a really enjoyable 8 hours!

Who killed the boys?

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Love Carole Boyd’s narration. After the first few chapters I had to go back and start again as there are so many intriguing characters, I couldn’t keep up with who was who. Second start, I managed to get to grips much more, but was still a little overwhelmed as the characters are all so vibrant with such different lives and backgrounds. I found listening in thorough quiet got me concentrating better and I soon became obsessed with them all and found I couldn’t stop listening….I’d definitely recommend this book with its fabulous, unwinding story, in fact, I could and will definitely listen again. There’s nothing better than a feeling of actually knowing the people in a book and not wanting to part from them.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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Cartoon-like characters, rather silly ending, enough plot to keep you reading but neither a great who-dun-it nor a great story. Can see why it was in the sale!

Not her best

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really loved this story and it's many characters. The narrator was excellent. Brilliant .

An unusual but excellent book.

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Interesting cast of characters, many of whom are rather unpleasant, but whom I suspect are more accurately portrayed than we would like to admit.

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