Simisola

Simisola
	First edition (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English7
Series	Inspector Wexford # 17
Genre	Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher	Hutchinson (UK); Crown (US)
Publication date	24 September 1994
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	348 pp
ISBN	0-09-179161-8
OCLC	31331007
Preceded by	Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
Followed by	Road Rage

Simisola is a 1994 novel by British crime writer Ruth Rendell. It features her recurring detective Inspector Wexford, and is the 17th in the series.^[1] Though a murder mystery, the book also touches on the themes of racism and welfare dependency.^[2]

Plot summary[]

Dr Raymond Akande is Wexford's new GP and one of the few Black British people in Kingsmarkham. When Akande's daughter goes missing, and a body of a young black woman is found, Wexford is confronted by his own prejudices.^[3]

Critical reception[]

The Daily Courier wrote about the book: "...some of it gets tedious, especially when characters who do not consider themselves racists search themselves for racist traits".^[2]

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations[]

The novel was adapted into a television film in the UK in 1996 and starred George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Jane Lapotaire, and George Harris.

References[]

^ "Fiction book review - Simisola by Ruth Rendell". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Whodunit tries to be real novel". The Daily Courier (Arizona). . January 7, 1996. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
^ "Race relations are mystery's undercurrent". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 28, 1995. Retrieved 17 April 2012.

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[Publishers_Weekly_-_September_4._1995_-_Fiction_book_review_-_Simisola_by_Ruth_Rendell-1] "Fiction book review - Simisola by Ruth Rendell". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 18 November 2020.

[The_Daily_Courier_(AZ)_-_07Jan1996_-_Whodunit_tries_to_be_real_novel-2] "Whodunit tries to be real novel". The Daily Courier (Arizona). . January 7, 1996. Retrieved 17 April 2012.

[Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette_-_28Sep1995_-_Race_relations_are_mystery's_undercurrent-3] "Race relations are mystery's undercurrent". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 28, 1995. Retrieved 17 April 2012.

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Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale
Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The Saint Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners
As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child
Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy A Spot of Folly
TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries The Barbara Vine Mysteries