Ruth Rendell: 131 books

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen...

London’s Inspector Wexford has two cases to solve—a murdered wife and a missing husband—in this double dose of a “masterful series” (Los Angeles Times). Now in one volume, two novels in “one of the best-written detective series in the genre’s history,” from a *New York Times–*bestselling...

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

A woman investigates the shocking secrets that brought down her once proud family in this suspenseful Edgar Award winner from a New York Times–bestselling author. Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered...

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie...

**In this “**dark, hypnotic story of romantic obsession,” an elderly woman shares her disturbing secrets with a spellbound young caregiver (The New York Times). Stuck in a loveless marriage and mired in a troubled affair, Jenny Warner doesn’t have a single friend in whom she can confide....

**An “obsessively readable” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder (The Sunday Telegraph). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two...

From an Edgar Award–winning author: Murder intrudes on a student’s secret history of the London Underground in this “b****rilliantly unexpected” mystery (The Times, London).   Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarities, but no obsession has taken hold quite like that of writing...

When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward....

A La Carte Foreword by HRH Princess Diana This is a collection of Short stories by some of the greatest living names in English literature with a foreword by Princess Diana. Published and originally sponsored by Sir John Gielgud and John Le Carre in 1995.  This book and Ebook is Raising...

Escritores do século 18 ao 20, entre escritores clássicos e renovadores da Ficção Científica, criam contos em que o amor e o sexo vencem os limites do tempo e da morte e onde máquinas estendem para além do imaginável as paixões e os prazeres.

Wanneer Carl een pakje afslankpillen aan zijn goede vriendin Stacey verkoopt, en daarmee onbedoeld haar dood veroorzaakt, zet hij een opeenvolging van catastrofale gebeurtenissen in gang. Het begint met uitvluchten, gaat over in leugens en eindigt met moord… In Rendells donkere verhaal vol...

Sarah Hussain, priester van de St Peter’s Church, was niet bij iedereen geliefd in haar gemeenschap: als vrouw van gemengde afkomst hield ze er vrije ideeën op na en wilde de kerk moderniseren. Maar de schok is groot wanneer haar lichaam in de pastorie wordt gevonden, gewurgd. Voormalig hoofdinspecteur...

De vierentwintigjarige Kirstin Kvist verlaat Zweden om in Engeland te gaan werken. Via haar vriend komt de terecht op Lydstep Old Hall, een oud, verwaarloosd landhuis in Essex. Daar gaat ze voor John, een veertigjarige schizofrene man, zorgen. Bij aankomst beseft Kirstin dat ze in een ongewone...