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A Sight For Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
In traditional fairy tales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after. But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most terrible living nightmares. Teddy Brex emerges from a lov ...Show more
A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
A Spot of Folly - Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem by Ruth Rendell; Sophie Hannah (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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 cheat ...Show more
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Wexford
A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. An ordinary life. An extraordinary death. The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Ch ...Show more
Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
No Man's Nightingale: (A Wexford Case) by Ruth Rendell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: Wexford | Reading Level: very good
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter's Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her ...Show more
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Audio/Book
The detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost in the twenty-first instalment in Ruth Rendell's bestselling series. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury: a human ...Show more
The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Reading Level: very good
'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