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 it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn't stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.'     Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their secret place.Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved on or disappeared.     Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret, buried a lifetime ago, and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must investigate a possible case of murder.     In all her novels, Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche. The interconnecting tunnels of Loughton in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR lead to no single destination. But the relationships formed there, the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence - not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.

Product Description: La dama inglesa del crimen y del suspense se deslumbra con estos singulares relatos, en donde se entremezclan personajes inauditos, oscuras perversiones y tendencias inconfesables. Un mundo morboso, sugerente, único, estremecedores retratos psicológicos y tramas perfectas, donde una medium que se conecta con los espíritus ...read more

Product Description: La dama inglesa del crimen y del suspense se deslumbra con estos singulares relatos, en donde se entremezclan personajes inauditos, oscuras perversiones y tendencias inconfesables. Un mundo morboso, sugerente, único, estremecedores retratos psicológicos y tramas perfectas, donde una medium que se conecta con los espíritus ...read more

A serial killer known as the 'Rottweiler' stalks the young women of an ethnically diverse London neighborhood near Lisson Grove, and the only clue lies in the trinkets taken by the killer from each victim as a macabre souvenir, items that start to turn up amid the clutter of a local antique shop. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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When her gigolo boyfriend, Jeff Leach, persuades her that he has died in an accident in order to pursue his relationship with the wealthy Fiona, Minty, a beautiful but unstable young girl, becomes obsessed with his ghost, an obsession that has unexpected repercussions when she uses a knife to defend herself from a supposed ghost, killing Jeff in the process. (Suspense)

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: Un nuevo y difícil caso para el legendario inspector Wexford.

Product Description: Un nuevo y difícil caso para el legendario inspector Wexford.

A young, aristocratic woman from London volunteers to donate bone marrow to save the life of a homeless man, while a vicious stalker in the city's Regents Park terrorizes its dwellers in a shockingly brutal fashion.

The fates of a woman who is being visited by her late boyfriend's ghost, a gay MP who marries to prevent being outed, a radio talk-show host with an eating disorder, and a black police sergeant intertwine as a serial killer stalks London.

Eigentlich gibt es noch gar keinen richtigen Fall. Die Meldung ueber zwei verschwundene junge Maedchen, die wenige Tage spaeter scheinbar wohlbehalten und ohne Erklaerungen wieder auftauchen, reizt lediglich Chief Inspector Wexfords Neugier. Nicht einmal der scharfsinnige Wexford rechnet damit, dass diese harmlosen Vorfaelle mit der Entfuehrung eines Babys, dem Tod eines Polizisten und dem Mord an einem Geschaeftsmann zusammenhaengen.„Ruth Rendell ist die brillanteste Kriminalautorinunserer Zeit.“Patricia Cornwell

The lives and fates of four different people--a young woman who is being visited by the ghost of her late boyfriend, a gay Conservative MP who marries to prevent being outed, a radio talk-show host with an eating disorder, and a black police sergeant--intertwine as a vicious serial killer stalks the streets of London. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

'Bizarre, isn't it? The teenagers are 15 and 13, the sitter's in her 30s, they can all swim and the house is miles above the floods'. As Burden introduces the case to Wexford with these words, the Subaqua Task Force looks in vain for drowned bodies. Yet their mother is sure her children are dead.

The fates of four people--a woman who is being visited by her late boyfriend's ghost, a gay MP who marries to prevent being outed, a radio talk-show host with an eating disorder, and a black police sergeant--intertwine as a serial killer stalks the streets of London.

Philip Wardman, a young man with a phobia against violence and death, is drawn into a web of evil when he encounters the beautiful but mysterious Senta, who leads him into a murderous plot

Vera, who lives with her invalid mother and idle husband, Stanley, struggles to find peace amid domestic strife, until Stanley, driven by hatred and ever-increasing conflict with his much disliked mother-in-law, decides to lend death a helping hand, but he soon discovers that his action may have a terrible cost. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

An accountant shares the large sum of money that he wins with five people, including a cleaning woman who believes she is the reincarnation of Madame Blavatsky and her son who kills people to send them quickly into the astral dimension. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Psychological insights are shared in an Edgar Award-winning collection of tales about guilt and recrimination, obsessive fears, mental derangement, and the macabre. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Eleven stories deal with murder, complex family relationships, and the psychology of killers

Product Description: Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau...read more

Product Description: Friday the thirteenth of May was most unlucky day for Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID.  That day he confiscated a replica gun from his son's school briefcase and lost his life in a bank robbery - the first link in a chain of events which led to a series of deaths...read more

Inspector Wexford confronts the terrifying world of domestic violence when a series of kidnappings leads back to his own daughter's volunteer work at a shelter for battered women. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

A lonely man spends his time writing scathingly critical letters to newly published authors in memory of his mother, buried in his garden, in the title story in a collection of short fiction that also includes 'The Wink' about a woman who waits a lifetime for revenge, 'Catamount,' and 'High Mysterious Union,' a gripping tale of obsession and violence. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.