Ruth Rendell

Few mystery writers can match Ruth Rendell’s ability to get inside the dark, tangled psyches of everyday criminals....

A simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex....

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....

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

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

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....

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....

Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight....

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

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'....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?....

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