Un hombre en apariencia normal y corriente mantiene una doble vida desconcertante: casado con dos mujeres, miente a cada una según su conveniencia. Sin embargo, el repentino hallazgo de su cadáver pondra al descubierto una oscura trama criminal.
From the author of SIMISOLA, a novel featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, whose wife allies herself to a protest movement when a by-pass is planned for Kingsmarkham, but the plot thickens when the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered, and people go missing, including his wife.
Ruth Rendell Pince-mi et Pince-moi Une jeune célibataire maniaco-dépressive qui croit aux fantômes ; une écervelée droguée de shopping et prête à tout sacrifier pour son confort et celui de ses enfants ; une brillante banquière à qui tout sourit sauf l'amour. Par la faute d'un beau gosse cynique, profiteur et facétieux, les destinées des trois jeunes femmes vont se rapprocher puis se trouver aussi étroitement imbriquées que les wagons de l'accident ferroviaire dans lequel Jock est censé avoir disparu. Car comme les chats, Jock, alias Jeff, alias Jerry, a plusieurs vies... Ces jeux de rôles vont faire se lever un tourbillon dans lequel la folie, la malhonnêteté et l'inconscience se combineront pour provoquer la plus redoutable des réactions en chaîne.
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church.But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage.A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine's prattle.But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information.The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work.For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.
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. Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation and deep humanity, this is Rendell at her most memorable and best.
