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New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife’s kidnapping than meets the eye. Atmospheric, gripping and never predictable, this is Ruth Rendell at her inimitable best.
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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 the nine short stories of dark deeds and heart-stopping suspense collected here for the first time.
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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 mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves.
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When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long-buried crime of passion begins. The grisly discovery leads a group of friends, who played together as children, to question their pasts.
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Sarah Hussain was not popular in the community of Kingsmarkham. Born of mixed parents, 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. In his retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, but when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case, Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information.
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Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners, decide to form the Saint Zita Society as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother.
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Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners, decide to form the Saint Zita Society as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother.
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A chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, brings Wexford out of retirement. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an advisor on a difficult case.
