RENDELL RUTH

(P/B) FROM DOON WITH DEATH
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, Chief Inspector Wexford is baffled until he discovers Margaret's dark secret - a collection of rare books, each inscribed from a secret lover and signed only as 'Doon'. Who is Doon? And could the answer hold the key to Wexford solving his ...
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(P/B) THE THIEF
What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you... Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results. Quick Reads are brilliant, short books by bestselling writers and celebrities. These exciting, drama...
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(P/B) THE KEYS TO THE STREET
London's wealthiest, poorest, kindest and most dangerous citizens all cross paths in Regent's Park. All it takes to bring them together is a series of brutally gruesome murders...Mary Jago has donated her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a horrible break-up with her abusive boyfriend. Moving to the affluent edge of London's famous Regent's Park, Mary believes she has finally escaped the threat of violence. She never thought that one simple act of kindness could put her own l...
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(P/B) END IN TEARS
A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson's position. Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secre...
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(P/B) ONE ACROSS, TWO DOWN
There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law's money. For twenty years, nearly all his adult life, the puzzles have been his only pleasure; his mother-in-law's money his only dream. And in all those years it has never once occurred to Stanley that she would try to outsmart him and the money might never be his. Until now. It is only now that Stanley, so clever at misleading double-meanings and devious clues, decides to construct a puzzle of his own - and so gi...
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(P/B) THE BABES IN THE WOOD
The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. 'A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.' There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. Even where Wexford lives, higher up in Kingsmarkham, the waters...
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(P/B) PORTOBELLO
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello... Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good....
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(P/B) DARK CORNERS
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 mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail, and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves. Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation and deep humanity, this is Rendell at he...
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(P/B) VANITY DIES HARD
Alice Whittaker was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and just as suddenly her beautiful friend, Nesta, vanished from it - leaving a trail of confusing clues....
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(P/B) COLLECTED STORIES (VOLUME 1)
Three classic Ruth Rendell stories: Means of Evil, The Fallen Curtain and The Fever Tree. Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices. From Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all the evidence pointing to the husband in Means of Evil to the unsettling psychology behind a man's friendship with a boy in The Fallen Curtain and the paranoia that plagues two people out of love, terrified of being rejected in The Fever Tree. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) A SPOT OF FOLLY
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 cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to...
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ΠΙΚΡΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ
Σε μια φαινομενικά ήσυχη πόλη του Σάσεξ, ο παλαίμαχος επιθεωρητής Γουέξφορντ θα κληθεί να λύσει το μυστήριο της δολοφονίας μιας ανήλικης μητέρας, της Άμπερ Μάρσαλσον, την οποία ο πατέρας της βρήκε νεκρή λίγα μόλις μέτρα από το σπίτι της. Αυτό είναι ένα μόνο από τα προβλήματά του, καθώς η κόρη του Σίλβια έχει δεχθεί να γεννήσει το παιδί του πρώην συντρόφου της, προκαλώντας πανικό στον επιθεωρητή και τη γυναίκα του, ενώ ένας συγκεκριμένος δημοσιογράφος βάλλει εναντίον του για τις ξεπερασμένες αστυνομικές μεθόδους που χρησιμοποιεί. Η Ρουθ Ρέ...
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(P/B) COLLECTED STORIES (VOLUME 2)
"Murders sometimes seem an afterthought to Rendell's stories: the obvious way to closure but not really necessary to compel our attention, because they are not the grisliest things on show. Death seems cosy compared with the lives she describes. You can see this in her short stories, each of which is like a condensed, polished Rendell novel." --Daily Telegraph The new collection from Ruth Rendell comprising of the bestselling short stories THE NEW GIRL FRIEND, THE COPPER PEACOCK, BLOOD LINES and PIRANHA TO SCURFY. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) DARK CORNERS
When Carl sells a packet of slimming pills to his close friend, Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begins with subterfuge, extends to lies, and culminates in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail, and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves. Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation and deep humanity, this is Rendel...
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(P/B) THIRTEEN STEPS DOWN
A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, ...
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ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΛΑΒΥΡΙΝΘΟΣ
Τα βιβλία της Ρέντελ ξεπερνούν τους περιορισμούς του αστυνομικού ύφους και είναι αυθεντική λογοτεχνία, στην πιο καθαρή μορφή της. Ένα από τα στοιχεία που συντελούν σ' αυτό είναι ότι η συγγραφέας, πίσω από τη βασική πλοκή, στήνει μια αντιπροσωπευτική και προσεκτικά δουλεμένη τοιχογραφία της αγγλικής κοινωνίας, τόσο στις μικρές και φαινομενικά ειδυλλιακές επαρχιακές πόλεις, όσο και σε διάφορες γειτονιές του Λονδίνου. [...] Η κριτικός Τζόαν Σμιθ λέει χαρακτηριστικά: "Αν κάποιος από άλλο πλανήτη ζητούσε να μάθει πόσο άλλαξε το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο...
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(P/B) THE VAULT
In the peaceful garden of a London house, a manhole cover has just been raised. Inside the cellar lie three bodies. Two men and a woman. None carry identification. The men have been there for twelve years; the woman for only two. For Inspector Wexford, this is a case worth coming out of retirement for. Soon he is trying to establish who the victims in the vault are - and most importantly who put them there. But a shocking development in his private life means that his search for the truth is about to become a lot more complicated... (From ...
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ΕΜΜΟΝΗ
Δεν το είχε πει ποτέ σε κανένα. Η παράξενη σχέση, αν μπορούσε να ονομαστεί σχέση, είχε κρατήσει χρόνια, δεκαετίες, και δεν είχε πει ποτέ λέξη σε κανέναν γι' αυτή. Δεν είχε μιλήσει γιατί ήξερε ότι κανείς δεν θα τον πίστευε. Δεν μπορούσε να αποδείξει τίποτα, τις παρενοχλήσεις, τα βλέμματα, τα συνωμοτικά χαμόγελα, τους φόνους, ούτε τίποτε άλλο από όσα έκανε ο Τάργκο γνωρίζοντας ότι ο Γουέξφορντ ήξερε, αλλά δεν μπορούσε να κάνει τίποτα. Ο επιθεωρητής Γουέξφορντ το είχε πάρει σχεδόν απόφαση· δεν θα ξαναέβλεπε την κοντή μυώδη φιγούρα του Έρικ Τά...
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(P/B) THE MONSTER IN THE BOX
'He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the stalking, not the stares or the conspiratorial smiles, not the killings, not any of the signs Targo had made because he knew Wexford knew and could do nothing about it.' Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet the...
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(P/B) TIGERLILY'S ORCHIDS
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives... Living opposite, ...
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