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Ruth Rendell
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE FIRST WEXFORD CASE
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KATE HAMER
'If crime fiction is currently in rude good health…
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Barbara Leavy
Aside from Ruth Rendell’s brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the…
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What connects a kidnapped baby, a woman’s body left to rot in a cove in Yugoslavia, a suspicious suicide and the century-old case of a wife who poisons her husband?
The most acclaimed mystery writer on either side of the Atlantic now gives her readers nine exquisitely tuned tales of psychological terror. Delivering high-voltage shocks with the elegance of a…
Mild-mannerd Arthur Johnson’s empty and solitary existence is suddenly threatened when a worldly young man, a scholar working on a thesis on psychopathic personalities, arrives at the Trinity Road Lodging…
From a multi-award-winning author comes a chilling new novel about obsession, superstition, and violence, set in Rendell’s darkly atmospheric London.
The first girl had a bite mark on her neck but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer…
The messages were coming in thick and fast. Coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen. But the messages were a lifeline to John - a means of getting…
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On Valentine’s Day, four members of the Coverdale family are murdered by their housekeeper in the space of 15 minutes. When Detective Chief Superintendent arrests Eunice Parchman two weeks later…
Tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition –Back cover.
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Two years ago he was a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives, in a near-derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two…
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they…
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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe. Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved? This old nursery rhyme is a favorite of Jerry…
This chilling novel about serial killer in contemporary London is penned by one of the most celebrated mystery writers of our time. As the story gets under way, readers have…
An omnibus edition of three of Ruth Rendell’s Wexford mysteries. They feature the discovery of sinister undercurrents when an apparently respectable woman is murdered, evil letters that make unspoken imaginings…
Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of someone else’s world, not part of the everyday lives of ordinary people…or are they? This is a collection of sinister stories from…
Mary Jago had donated bone-marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. This generous act led to her break-up with Alistair, for whom it was as if her…
Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some days later. Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a paedophile who has recently been released back into the community but he…
No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable. Few would have found it especially interesting. But it was not an unpleasant place to live: the old railway line lay…
Presents a collection of short stories that also includes two unpublished novellas. The first novella is a story about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book, one…
Ismay and her sister, Heather, lived in a house in Clapham. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They never discussed the changes to the house. But even…
In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry…
Includes three mysteries - From Doon With Death ; A New Lease of Death ; and, The Best Man to Die .
This collection of long and short stories probes the patterns of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires of deception, and the guilty secrets of human beings. It ends…
The discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends –
It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport, looking colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate…
A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl…
