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.....

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....

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

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.....

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

When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed....

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

Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears....

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....

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....

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

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

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

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?....

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

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

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

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

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....