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A Spot of Folly - Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell; Sophie Hannah (Introduction by)
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheat ...Show more
A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among t ...Show more
DEMON IN MY VIEW by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Her white face stared blankly back at him. He fancied that she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. There had been only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and, advancing now, smiling, he did it.
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mis ...Show more
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mis ...Show more
Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire #2) by Anthony Trollope; Ruth Rendell (Foreword by, Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy ...Show more
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Wexford
A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. An ordinary life. An extraordinary death. The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Ch ...Show more
Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. 'For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. But once i ...Show more
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
As their worlds collide, an ex-con and his victim struggle to make sense of their violent past and forge a new future When Victor Jenner emerges from prison he finds himself inexorably drawn to the man who put him there--the policeman he'd shot a bullet through and paralyzed for life. But it seems th ...Show more
Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979. Alan Groombridge is married to a woman he doesn't like, is a bank manager of a tiny branch, and is doomed to a life of boredom and tedious routine. All that saves him is a fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money for just one year of freedom.
No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parents - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's church. But it came as a profound shock to everyone when she was found strangled in the vicarage. A g ...Show more
No Man's Nightingale: (A Wexford Case) by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Wexford | Reading Level: very good
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter's Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her ...Show more