Ruth Rendell: 131 books

From the New York Times–bestselling author of A Dark-Adapted Eye: A unique psychological thriller about a gentle young man tempted to kill for love. Philip Wardman is disgusted by murder. He cannot tolerate violent films or the local news, and when his friends discuss such things he often...

The first victim had bite marks on her neck so the London papers nicknamed her killer, “the Rottweiler.” He has been stalking the small and diverse London community of Lisson Grove, where Inez Ferry runs an antique shop frequented by a motley collection of eccentric individuals. When the Rottweiler’s...

In End in Tears, Edgar Award winning author Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford has his work cut out for him: When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is...

Als Grace en haar broer Andrew het huis van hun grootmoeder erven, besluiten ze daar samen te gaan wonen. Voor hen een logische stap: ze kunnen het prima met elkaar vinden en het huis is groot genoeg. Maar waar ze niet over hadden nagedacht: wat als een van hen wil samenwonen met zijn of haar geliefde?...

50 Jahre Inspector Wexford! Ruth Rendell schreibt Krimigeschichte. Chief Inspector Wexford hatte eigentlich gehofft, dass ihm Eric Targo nie wieder unter die Augen treten würde. Doch nun ist er zurück in Kingsmarkham – klein, muskelbepackt und so arrogant wie eh und je. Als Wexford noch...

Ruth Rendell ist die »Queen of Crime« Immer wieder hat Ismay den gleichen Traum: Sie folgt ihrer Schwester in einen Raum mit einem spiegelglatten See, in dem eine weiße Gestalt treibt. Der Traum erinnert Ismay unaufhörlich daran, dass vor neun Jahren ihr Stiefvater in der Badewanne ertrunken...

A girl experiments with the occult to keep her family together in this psychological thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners. In a quiet house in the London suburb of Manningtree, fifteen-year-old Pup and his emotionally damaged older sister, Dolly, have become...

This Edgar Award finalist from the New York Times–bestselling author is a “suspense mystery of the highest order” (The New Yorker). For London’s Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, it wasn’t an official call. He was just being neighborly when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing...

A street hustler-turned-wealthy businessman races to extricate his childhood sweetheart from the arms of her fiancé before it’s too late When Guy Curran, a streetwise hustler from the wrong side of the tracks, falls in love with good-girl Leonora, he knows that one day she will be his wife....

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS This captivating novel about residents and servants on one block of a posh London street is a “sex comedy and a social satire, of the ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ variety, with a few murders mixed in for our added delight” (The Washington...

He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health—or was he? **“Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots.”—**The Los Angeles Times Like any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages....

In de aanloop naar de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd onder de groene weilanden van Loughton in Essex een netwerk van tunnels gegraven. Een groep kinderen ontdekt die en maakt er hun geheime speelplek van. Zeventig jaar later is de wereld veranderd. Ontwikkelaars hebben het groene landschap voorgoed veranderd....

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed,...

A Sight for Sore Eyes tells three stories, and for the longest time, the reader has no inkling of how they will come together. The first is a story of a little girl who has been scolded and sent to her room when her mother is brutally murdered; as Francine grows up, she is haunted by the experience,...