Ruth Rendell

En torno a una mesa del pub Dugong, los trabajadores domésticos de la aristocrática callejuela londinense Hexam Place han creado una informal sociedad. Allí, criadas y conductores, mayordomos y cocineros, niñeras y au pairs se sienten liberados para contarse las miserias de sus trabajos y las manias de sus empleadores. pero, ¿hasta que punto son sinceros los unos con los otros? La llegada del jardinero Dex, un hombre recien salido del psiquiatrico que cree que los mensajes de su compañia de movil proceden de una voz divina, abrira una caja de Pandora llena de obsesiones, adulterios. y, quiza, asesinatos. Con la elegancia habitual en ella, Ruth Rendell nos ofrece un nuevo recorrido por los laberintos mas oscuros de la mente humana. A punto de cumplir cincuenta años de carrera literaria, esta gran dama de las letras inglesas es sinonimo del mejor thriller y de los mas perturbadores retratos psicologicos.

Gwendolen Chawcer es una solterona octogenaria que vive entregada a la lectura y a la fantasía de un viejo amor, pero tan melancólica y plácida existencia se ve alterada cuando decide alquilar la planta de arriba de la mansion familiar en el barrio de Notting Hill. Su nuevo arrendatario, Mix Cellini, es un mecanico de maquinas de fitness con una fijacion: los crimenes cometidos sesenta años antes por el tristemente celebre John Christie. Gwendolen no tarda en descubrir tan siniestra obsesion, pero ignora queesta adquirira tintes cada vez mas macabros cuando Mix se enamore perdidamente de la modelo Nerissa Nash.Con Trece escalones, Ruth Rendell presenta un retrato perturbador de dos personajes dispares pero hermanados por sus neurosis romanticas. De paso, la gran dama de la novela de suspense psicologico incide en temas tan espinosos como el culto al crimen o las ansias de celebridad en nuestra sociedad.

''He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the stalking, not the stares or the conspiratorial smiles, not the killings, not any of the signs Targo had made because he knew Wexford knew and could do nothing about it''. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo''s short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty, no one was convicted. Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. And it was Eric Targo. A psychopath who would kill again...As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case, Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford''s career, even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The past is a haunted place, with clues and passions that leave an indelible imprint on the here and now.

Ismay et Heather vivent dans la maison où est mort leur beau-père, neuf ans auparavant. Depuis, la demeure a été divisée en deux appartements : leur mère occupe celui du haut, Ismay et Heather se partagent l'autre. Si ces dernières s'entendent très bien, jamais elles n'évoquent les changements intervenus dans la maison, ni ce terrible jour d'août. Mais les mensonges cachés risquent de ressurgir...

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for 1976s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell. And Mr and Mrs Font, the worried parents, will have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son. Darkly humorous, piercingly observant of human behaviour, Ruth Rendell has created here another compelling fable of our lives and crimes.

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.' 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 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 - or disappeared. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a long buried grisly secret. And a weary detective, more concerned with current crimes, must investigate a 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, and the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence - not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.

Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anitas character is as mysterious as her disappearance. There was no body, no crime - nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. According to headquarters, it wasnt to be considered a murder enquiry at all.

Wexford believed hed solved Mrs Primeros murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyones mind. Until now... Henry Archerys son is engaged to Painters daughter. Only Archery cant let the past remain buried.

The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small b

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coach house in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the hand of the law.

A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1980. Martin Urban wins the pools and decides to help those less fortunate. Finn also comes into money and wants to help people - but only if the price is right. The good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the macabre madness of the other.

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 Rendells 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.Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation and deep humanity, this is Rendell at her most memorable and best.

En torno a una mesa del pub Dugong, los trabajadores domésticos de la aristocrática callejuela londinense Hexam Place han creado una informal sociedad. Allí, criadas y conductores, mayordomos y cocineros, niñeras y au pairs se sienten liberados para contarse las miserias de sus trabajos y las manias de sus empleadores. pero, ¿hasta que punto son sinceros los unos con los otros? La llegada del jardinero Dex, un hombre recien salido del psiquiatrico que cree que los mensajes de su compañia de movil proceden de una voz divina, abrira una caja de Pandora llena de obsesiones, adulterios. y, quiza, asesinatos. Con la elegancia habitual en ella, Ruth Rendell nos ofrece un nuevo recorrido por los laberintos mas oscuros de la mente humana. A punto de cumplir cincuenta años de carrera literaria, esta gran dama de las letras inglesas es sinonimo del mejor thriller y de los mas perturbadores retratos psicologicos.