She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day,
when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone …

In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell
creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson
has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire
for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor
below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about
to stumble-quite literally-upon one of Arthur’s many secrets. Haunting and intelligent,
A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very
disparate minds-one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.