Ruth Rendell

Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy....

Wexford is shopping for his wife’s birthday present when the body of a strangled woman is discovered nearby....

Few mystery writers can match Ruth Rendell’s ability to get inside the dark, tangled psyches of everyday criminals....

Wexford can’t be bothered when a woman complains of a runaway husband. But his disappearance takes on a new urgency when a second woman reports her husband is missing too.....

When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming 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.

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building....

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and their daughter....

“Du har en time tilbage at leve i.” Det er det eneste, der bliver sagt i telefonen. Så bliver der lagt på. Det må da være en spøg...

'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford....

Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing....

Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street inhabited by the rich....

Two damaged children. Teddy became a handsome young man, Francine was beautiful - a sight for sore eyes. But it was death that brought them together....

A collection of nine beautifully crafted, terrifying and intriguing tales of spine-tingling psychological terror and suspense from Ruth Rendell....

Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an S rather than a C) is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt dogged by ill-luck....

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia....

In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows....

No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable....

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of....

The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer 'The Rottweiler'....

Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion....