Ruth Rendell

Charlie Hatton wanted fast money and conspicuous success, and he was prepared to cut any corners to get them....

Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy....

A proposed highway through a forest near Kingsmarkham has caused loud cries of protest. One group has taken more drastic measures....

Inspector Wexford and his assistant Burden unravel the threads connecting the drowning of an elderly, world-renowned flautist and the murder of a woman whose identity confounds them.....

A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage....

Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage....

The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy....

When his father dies, Carl Martin, a philosophy graduate and struggling novelist, inherits a house in a trendy London neighborhood....

Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags....

Having published 45 books, Ruth Rendell is an internationally popular mystery writer.....

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of....

Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an S rather than a C) is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt dogged by ill-luck....

Wexford is shopping for his wife’s birthday present when the body of a strangled woman is discovered nearby....

Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s reigning queen. In Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting Hill....

Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair....

The residents of a shabby housing complex in the London suburb of Kingsmarkham are furious. A convicted pedophile, released from prison, has returned to their community....

The discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends....

Alan Groombridge had a fantasy....

Liza is raised in a remote rural hamlet. One evening, Liza’s mother orders her to leave home forever. Paralyzed at having to fend for herself, Liza finds refuge with Sean, a drifter with whom she begins to share the bizarre story of her life....

In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows....