Ruth Rendell

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

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.....

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....

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

Wexford can’t be bothered when a woman complains of a runaway husband. But his disappearance takes on a new urgency when a second woman reports her husband is missing too.....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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

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

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....

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

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'....