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. For him, it was as...

It was his third visit to the gloomy house on Orchard Drive. Each time, he parked in the same place. Each time, he carried a briefcase. And each time, Louise North greeted him at the door......

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the rich, unstable...

The First Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery.

Love and death – the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. 
The police knew all about her life and, by...

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a small stone bridge over a quiet road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...It is impossible for Chief...

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes...

The Nightingales were always a very happy couple. But someone had reason to quarrel with Elizabeth. Someone who was alone with her in the woods on a dark September night. Someone who loved or...

On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. A short while later, another young woman...

With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies',...

Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an ‘S’ rather than a ‘C’) is superstitious about the number thirteen and has always felt dogged by ill-luck. In the house where he lives, there are...

Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker’s life could change? She was thirty-seven, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, though she had got by with the one thing...

The latest victim in a series of apparently motiveless murders is found near Inez Ferry’s antique shop in Marylebone. Someone saw a shadowy figure running away, but the only other clues are that...

The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must...

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.Years earlier, when...

The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't care for Guy - or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora...