Ruth Rendell

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

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....

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....

The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy....

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

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.....

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....

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.....

Chief inspector Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.

Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s reigning queen. In Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting Hill....

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

In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park may, geographically, only be streets apart but....

Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags....

The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer 'The Rottweiler'....

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

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

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

The discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends....

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of....

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....