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RUTH RENDELL has won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as three Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writer’s Association. A member of the House of Lords, she lives in London.
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Wolf to the Slaughter
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1987
Price: $6.99
It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit lovemaking.
Then one evening a man with a knife turned the love nest... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1987
Price: $6.99
It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit lovemaking.
Then one evening a man with a knife turned the love nest... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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From Doon with Death
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.00
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $14.00
Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell, “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world” (Time magazine). From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the... Read more >
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Not in the Flesh
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download and an
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Guilty Thing Surprised
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1987
Price: $6.99
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1987
Price: $6.99
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands... Read more >
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Wolf to the Slaughter
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit lovemaking.
Then one evening a man with a knife turned the love nest... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $15.00
It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit lovemaking.
Then one evening a man with a knife turned the love nest... Read more >
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The Water's Lovely
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
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. But... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $13.95
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. But... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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A Sight for Sore Eyes
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $7.50
Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy wife who employs a series of repairmen for her sexual satisfaction. And Francine is a college student who witnessed her mother's murder and now must free herself from... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Price: $7.50
Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy wife who employs a series of repairmen for her sexual satisfaction. And Francine is a college student who witnessed her mother's murder and now must free herself from... Read more >
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End in Tears
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
The first death could have been an accident.
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 clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $13.95
The first death could have been an accident.
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 clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record... Read more >
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Harm Done
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $14.00
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 herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $14.00
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 herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Babes in the Wood
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.00
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $14.00
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Best Man to Die
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1987
Price: $7.99
Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1987
Price: $7.99
Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and... Read more >
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Veiled One
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 1989
Price: $6.99
Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 1989
Price: $6.99
Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case... Read more >
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Death Notes
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1986
Price: $7.99
Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 12, 1986
Price: $7.99
Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of... Read more >
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A Judgement in Stone
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $13.00
"A classic."--The London Times
What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $13.00
"A classic."--The London Times
What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Sleeping Life
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $14.00
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.
In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $14.00
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.
In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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13 Steps Down
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.00
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 Chawcer, Mix’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $13.00
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 Chawcer, Mix’s... Read more >
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Unkindness of Ravens
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1986
Price: $7.99
Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex. Read more >
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1986
Price: $7.99
Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex. Read more >
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Sins of the Fathers
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1986
Price: $6.99
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 12, 1986
Price: $6.99
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the... Read more >
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The Rottweiler
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $13.95
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 trinkets start... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $13.95
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 trinkets start... Read more >
Also available as an
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Shake Hands Forever
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $12.95
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $12.95
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 14, 2003
Price: $13.95
Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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From Doon with Death
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1988
Price: $6.99
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1988
Price: $6.99
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Some Lie and Some Die
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.95
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $12.95
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Lake of Darkness
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $12.95
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $12.95
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Murder Being Once Done
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $14.95
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 30, 1999
Price: $14.95
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
