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Ruth Rendell
The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry’s antique shop in Marylebone. Trinkets very similar to those mysteriously appearing in Inez’s shop. Since her actor husband died, too early…
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On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella disappeared. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. There was nowhere else for Wexford and his team to look. Just months…
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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…
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?
A Wexford mystery. Only 18 black people live in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford’s new doctor, whose daughter disappears. Chief Inspector Wexford takes more than a mere professional interest in the…
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A bank job goes wrong and a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin. The cases seem unrelated. But…
Presents a collection of short stories from Ruth Rendell. This work comprises of stories such as: The new Girl Friend , The Coppper Peacock , Blood Lines , and Piranha…
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…
Benet Archdale’s erratic mother Mapsa casts Benet, her baby son James, Carol Stratford, another young single mother, and her son into a maelstrom of kidnapping, fraud, family violence, and death.
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…
In The Lake of Darkness , Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion when a bachelor unexpectedly comes into a small…
When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified. She has almost no knowledge of a world…
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…
From the reigning queen of crime fiction ( Time Out ) comes the 22nd installment in the acclaimed Inspector Wexford series, which takes Wexford back to his days as a…
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…
Tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition –Back cover.
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But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife’s birthday party.The whole neighbourhood was there, witness to the…
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…
Anita’s narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man’s brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.‘Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the…
The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury - a…
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…
Behind the picture-postcard facade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When a three-year-old girl disappears, the public’s outrage turns toward a recently…
When Ismay and Heather’s stepfather drowned in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded that it was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have…
When the gifted, beloved flautist Sir Manuel Camargue, now aged and retired but engaged to a woman fifty years younger, disappears, leaving only a glove on an ice-covered lake, Inspector…
Life on Hexam Place appears orderly on the outside as drivers take their employers to and from work. But beneath this tranquil veneer, this London world of servants and their…
From a multi-award-winning author comes a chilling new novel about obsession, superstition, and violence, set in Rendell’s darkly atmospheric London.
There are only two things in life that interest Stanley - solving crossword puzzles and getting his hands on his mother-in-law’s money. After twenty years of waiting, he decides to…