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A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
Category: Audio Books
In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to women. His resulting loneliness has twisted his yearning ...Show more
A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction | Series: Wexford
The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were ...Show more
A Judgement In Stone by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction
Four members of the Coverdale family died in the space of 15 minutes on St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on that Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television, and was arrested two weeks later. But the tragedy neither began nor ended there.
A New Lease Of Death by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction | Series: Wexford Ser.
It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even more so when it's your first murder case. Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been ...Show more
A Sight For Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction
In traditional fairy tales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after. But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most terrible living nightmares. Teddy Brex emerges from a lov ...Show more
A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Category: Audio Books
In traditional fairytales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after. But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most terrible nightmares. Teddy Brex emerges from a loveless, i ...Show more
A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction
In Ruth Rendell's dark and contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn to the most terrible nightmares. Teddy Brex emerges from a loveless, isolated childhood as a handsome but autistic young man. Francine Hill, traumatized by the murder of her mother, grows into a beautiful young woman who must end ...Show more
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction
On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, that the only contents of the woman's handbag are some keys and a wallet containing nothing but some money. And tw ...Show more
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
Category: Audio Books
Ruth Rendell's timeless Wexford novels continue to intrigue, enthral and surprise readers time and time again. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, tha ...Show more
A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among t ...Show more
A Spot of Folly - Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell; Sophie Hannah (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheat ...Show more
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell
Category: Fiction
"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 Leach (if that is the name he is using at the time), a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing vic ...Show more