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A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, that the only contents of the woman's handbag are some keys and a wallet containing nothing but some money. And tw ...Show more
A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
32.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
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
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell
22.95 NZD
26.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?" This old nursery rhyme is a favorite of Jerry Leach (if that is the name he is using at the time), a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing vic ...Show more
Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: An\Inspector Wexford Mystery Ser.
A chief Inspector Wexford Novel. "This was an investigation which would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behaved, including his own family..."
Collected Stories by Ruth Rendell
36.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: good
This title features three classic Ruth Rendell stories: "Means of Evil", "The Fallen Curtain" and "The Fever Tree". Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices, from Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all ...Show more
Collected Stories 2 - Ruth Rendell by Ruth Rendell
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
The new collection from Ruth Rendell comprising of the bestselling short stories "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy". 'Murders sometimes seem an afterthought to Rendell's stories: the obvious way to closure but not really necessary to compel our attention ...Show more
DEMON IN MY VIEW by Ruth Rendell
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
End In Tears by Ruth Rendell
36.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A lump of concrete, dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road, kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daugh ...Show more
End in Tears by Ruth Rendell
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Wexford Ser.
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters ...Show more
Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
24.00 NZD
Category: Crime 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
Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park are not streets, but worlds, apart. When these two worlds collide, the repercussions are fatal. Guy and Leonora were childhood sweethearts, and belonged to the same criminal gang. But as ...Show more