num_pages: 191
description: What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life.  A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers.
language: English
title: Judgement in Stone
titlecomplete: Judgement in Stone
characters: Melinda Coverdale, Jacqueline Coverdale, Joan Smith, Norman Smith, Eunice Parchman, Giles Mont, George Coverdale
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Contemporary, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 7093
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Arrow Books Ltd