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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?
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 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Special Edition of A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.
On Valentine’s Day, four members of the Coverdale family were…
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…
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…
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Features three stories: Means of Evil , The Fallen Curtain and The Fever Tree .
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…
Anita’s narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man’s brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.‘ Beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark…
No Man’s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell’s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter’s Church may not be popular among the…
A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham, which will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. A protest movement forms locally and trouble is expected. However, before the protestors can…
The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Chief Inspector Wexford is baffled until he…
When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. Through a…
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.
Reprint. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2002.
The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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An Inspector Wexford mystery. Kingsmarkham doesn’t have too many complaints about its first annual rock festival, but then in a nearby quarry two lovers find a body that makes even…
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…
The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn’t care for Guy - or the way he makes…
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…
When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help, believing that Natalie is using a false identity, the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation. Events soon take a…
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…
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots hisfiancee’s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits…
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…
Originally published: London: J. Long, 1967.
A wallet found in the handbag of a murder victim leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas…
