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A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
A businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find his own back to the wall. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar finds herself caught out by an act of impulsive revenge. Atmospheric, mysterious and never predictable, these are among t ...Show more
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell; Ric Jerrom (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Specials
A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, accidental murders, and of one life's fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendell--"one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People)--writing at her absolute best. When his father dies, Carl Martin, a philosophy graduate and struggling novelist, in ...Show more
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 mis ...Show more
Ghost Stories by Ruth Rendell (Introduction by); M. R. James
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales. M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one ...Show more
Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 i ...Show more
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Cecily Gayford (Editor); Ellis Peters (Contribution by); Ruth Rendell (Contribution by); Arthur Conan Doyle (Contribution by); Dorothy L. Sayers (Contribution by); Margery Allingham (Contribution by); John Dickson Carr (Contribution by); G. K. Chesterton (Contribution by); Michael Innes (Contribution by); Julian Symons (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionable resorts of the Mediterranean, the beautiful people sun themselves on picture-postcard beaches.And in t ...Show more
No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parents - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's church. But it came as a profound shock to everyone when she was found strangled in the vicarage. A g ...Show more
Some Lie And Some Die by Ruth Rendell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. The victim's face has been pulped by the back-end of a bottle, but who, in this atmosphere of peace and love, could be capable of such violence? Th ...Show more
The Face of Trespass audio by Ruth Rendell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Specials
#1 bestselling author Two years ago, he had been a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair wa ...Show more
The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is 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. Bu ...Show more
The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour.' Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-paint ...Show more
The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour'. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-paint ...Show more