Contemporary / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out…

When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother’s house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. They’ve always got on well, the house is large enough to split…

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was…

Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house. Damaged…

In this stunning novel of erotic obsession, award-winning author Barbara Vine illuminates the shadows of love cast by dark deeds. Writing at her formidable best, Vine taps the poetry as…

Jenny’s marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people’s home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of…

From unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time (Patricia Cornwell), a new novel from Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine, about a brother and sister involved with the…

Margaret Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after the two English princesses. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret Rose still living, searching and reaching out for life…