Ruth Rendell

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.....

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

There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law’s money....

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

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

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....

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

One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods....

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

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....

Alan Groombridge had a fantasy....

With floods threatening his home, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing ....

Ruth Rendell takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder—serial murder....

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia....

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....

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....

No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable....

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....

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

The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer 'The Rottweiler'....