Ruth Rendell

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

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.....

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

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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.....

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

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....

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....

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