Ruth Rendell

A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Times–bestselling author. Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light....

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions—supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix’s eighty-year-old landlady, has few interests besides her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection

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These never-before-collected stories by Ruth Rendell-the three-time Edgar Award–winning mistress of dark suspense and one of the most celebrated thriller writers of the twentieth century-are "deliciously riveting, all the more so because Rendell's extraordinary ability to delve coolly and forensically into the dustiest nooks of the human psyche is amplified, not diminished, by the short story form. . . . Often the reader is taken by the throat"...

In the Gold Dagger Award–winning crime novel, a young man writing a history of London's Underground must contend with a killer living under his own roof All his young life, Jarvis Stringer has obsessed over the London Underground. Now he's writing a detailed history of the subway, and to make money in the meantime he rents out cheap rooms in the crumbling former schoolhouse he's inherited, all to desperate single mothers, buskers, subway vigilantes,...

When Lizzie and Bell meet for tea after nearly two decades apart, the topic of conversation is murder-one that Bell herself committed When Elizabeth Vetch spots Bell for the first time in seventeen years, she chases her down in order to learn why her old friend committed a terrible murder all those years ago. Bell has been in prison ever since the mysterious events that took place at the House of Stairs, a London mansion full of over-privileged, overstuffed,...

Ruth Rendells, eine Giganten des Spannungsgenres, letzter Roman ist eine düstere und atmosphärische Geschichte psychologischer Spannung. Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben verläuft für Carl alles nach Plan. Sein Romandebüt wird veröffentlicht, er hat ein Haus in Londons Stadtmitte geerbt, und er ist glücklich verliebt. Um jetzt noch für den nötigen Geldfluss zu sorgen, sucht er sich einen Untermieter, den er für einen wahren Glücksfall hält....

Former Chief Inspector Wexford returns from retirement to solve a most unlikely case: the mystery of who killed the three people whose corpses were last seen at the bottom of a coal hole in A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999). In the decade since Franklin Merton left St. John's Wood in 1998, Orcadia Cottage has changed hands twice by the time Martin Rokeby, who wants to make room for an amphora his wife Anne found in Florence, pulls up a manhole cover in...

In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.

When Inspector Wexford was a young policeman attending his first murder case, he first noticed Eric Targo and began to suspect, without any evidence, that this man is a murderer. Over the years, a series of apparently motiveless murders occur, and Wexford continues to be suspicious - even as Targo returns to Kingsmarkham successful, prosperous, and on his third marriage.

"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal...