<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Rendell, Ruth]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Rendell, Ruth]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/grant/rss/search?query=Rendell%2C%20Ruth&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:07:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Simisola]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>“Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”—<i>Time</i></b><br>No one admitted to spotting the doctor's missing daughter—even after the murders began. Melanie Akande, eschewing privilege, had insisted on going to the jobsearch office to find employment. But between that office and the bus stop, she vanished. Inspector Wexford hoped someone would have noticed her, since the Akandes were among the few Africans living in Kingsmarkham. Instead, he had found a middle-aged white woman strangled in bed, and a mysterious black girl buried in a shallow grave.<br>Now Wexford, seeking connections among the three women, cast his baleful eye on the changes in once rural Sussex—from a Kuwaiti millionaire's Rolls-Royce to the growing slums and dismal hopelessness of unemployed youth. What he can't see among them is the shocking, blood-chilling motive to kill. And what he has yet to find is a doctor's missing child . . . <br><b>Praise for <i>Simisola</i></b><br>“One of the author's best!”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br>“Rendell delivers a complex crime deftly unraveled.”<b>—<i>Daily News </i>(New York)</b>]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C654471</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C654471</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/654471980</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307806123/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alles Liebe vom Tod]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sofort ein Klassiker: Das erste Buch der britischen Spannungsautorin, die eine ganze Generation von Krimis prägte.
Inspektor Wexford steht vor einem Rätsel: Warum musste Margaret Parsons sterben? Die unscheinbare junge Hausfrau hatte keine Feinde – und doch wurde sie brutal erwürgt, ihre Leiche in einem abgelegenen Waldstück zurückgelassen. Als Polizeichef der kleinen Gemeinde Kingsmarkham ist Wexford eisern entschlossen, die Wahrheit herauszufinden – und stößt schließlich auf eine Sammlung seltener Bücher in Margarets Besitz, jedes einzelne davon mit der leidenschaftlichen Widmung eines unbekannten Liebhabers versehen. Je tiefer Wexford in die Vergangenheit von Margaret Parsons eintaucht, desto mehr erkennt er, dass die Antworten in der schweigsamen Dorfgemeinschaft zu finden sind, die sich wie Wölfe um Margarets Erinnerungen schart …
»Ruth Rendell ist die brillanteste Kriminalautorin unserer Zeit.« Bestsellerautorin Patricia Cornwell
Der fesselnde Auftakt der Bestseller-Serie um Inspektor Wexford – preisgekrönte und feingezeichnete psychologische Spannung für die Leserinnen und Leser von Val McDermid und Elly Griffiths. Als Hörbuch bei Saga Egmont erhältlich sowie als eBook bei dotbooks.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19094142</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19094142</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[ger]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19094142981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>Kriminalroman: Inspector Wexford Ermittelt 1 Hochkarätige Spannung Der Britischen Queen Of Crime</subtitle><language>ger</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788727290478/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classic Crime Short Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown. And that's not all. 

Stories included: 

Loopy by Ruth Rendell, read by Patrick Malahide 

The Missing Romney by Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd 

Insufficient Evidence by Frances Hegarty, read by Patrick Malahide 

The Compleat Criminal Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd 

The Case for the Defence by Graham Greene, read by Patrick Malahide 

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Jack Shepherd 

The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton, read by Jack Shepherd 

Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham, read by Patrick Malahide 

Nine Points of the Law by E. W. Hurnung, read by Patrick Malahide 

Arsene Lupin in Prison by Maurice Leblanc, read by Jack Shepherd]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15910170</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15910170</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/15910170981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781907416415/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Fremde im Haus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ruth Rendells, eine Giganten des Spannungsgenres, letzter Roman ist eine düstere und atmosphärische Geschichte psychologischer Spannung. 

Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben verläuft für Carl alles nach Plan. Sein Romandebüt wird veröffentlicht, er hat ein Haus in Londons Stadtmitte geerbt, und er ist glücklich verliebt. Um jetzt noch für den nötigen Geldfluss zu sorgen, sucht er sich einen Untermieter, den er für einen wahren Glücksfall hält. Doch der vermeintlich zuvorkommende Dermot streift nachts durchs Haus, taucht im Dunkeln hinter Türen auf und durchwühlt Schränke und Schubladen. 

Als er schließlich von einem tragischen Unglück in Carls Bekanntenkreis erfährt, setzt dies eine Kette verhängnisvoller Ereignisse in Gang ... 

Ruth Rendell wurde 1930 in London geboren und lebte dort bis zu ihrem Tod 2015. Sie arbeitete als Journalistin, bevor sie sich ganz dem Schreiben von Romanen widmete. 1997 wurde sie mit dem Grand Master Award der Crime Writers' Association of America, dem renommiertesten Krimipreis, ausgezeichnet und darüber hinaus von Königin Elizabeth II. in den Adelsstand erhoben. Ruth Rendell ist auch unter dem Pseudonym Barbara Vine bekannt.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C18510004</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C18510004</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[ger]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/18510004981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>ger</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788726225259/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crocodile Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liza is raised in a remote rural hamlet. One evening, Liza's mother orders her to leave home forever. Paralyzed at having to fend for herself, Liza finds refuge with Sean, a drifter with whom she begins to share the bizarre story of her life.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13539583</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13539583</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13539583981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501988011/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death Notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspector Wexford and his assistant Burden unravel the threads connecting the drowning of an elderly, world-renowned flautist and the murder of a woman whose identity confounds them.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521303</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521303</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13521303981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980013310/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing the Gunner's Daughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[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, the only survivor of the mass murders that obliterated her family.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521300</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521300</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13521300981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980013655/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sight for Sore Eyes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having published 45 books, Ruth Rendell is an internationally popular mystery writer. She has won four Gold Dagger and three Edgar awards. She has been presented with the Commander of the British Empire honor, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. In A Sight For Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell's exceptional literary talent shines from each word. Teddy Brex is a handsome young man. Raised by parents who never loved him, he has grown to put his trust in objects. Things rarely disappoint him the way people do. Francine Hill is a lovely sight. And, like Teddy, she carries deep psychological scars. What brings these two young people together, however, isn't beauty. It is death. As Ruth Rendell probes the dark forces childhood has created in Teddy's and Francine's lives, an emotionally gripping story unfolds. Narrator Jenny Sterlin voices all the subtle layers of suspense that are the hallmark of Rendell's incomparable work.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13522093</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13522093</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13522093981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980014096/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bridesmaid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Senta Pelham is a mirror image of Flora, the lovely marble bust Philip fanaticized about for so long. But life, like art, is not always what its mere surface suggests. And Senta's strange world of make-believe, where truth and falsehood are eerily interchangeable, soon draws Philip into a shadowy cloister of vague and uncertain terror.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13540921</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13540921</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13540921981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501987809/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heartstones]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few mystery writers can match Ruth Rendell's ability to get inside the dark, tangled psyches of everyday criminals. Rendell takes a single emotion-in this case a sister's all-consuming jealousy-and shows how even the most unsuspicious people are capable of the worst kind of horrors.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521675</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521675</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13521675981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980013532/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Veiled One]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect . . . but will he be able to make him talk?]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13539191</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13539191</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13539191981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501989100/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harm Done]]></title><description><![CDATA[Acknowledged as one of today's premier mystery writers, Ruth Rendell has won three Edgar Awards and four Gold Dagger Awards. She received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded the Commander of the British Empire. Among her most popular books are those in the Inspector Wexford series. Harm Done presents the inspector with a most volatile challenge: the various guises of domestic abuse. The residents of a shabby housing complex in the London suburb of Kingsmarkham are furious. A convicted pedophile, released from prison, has returned to their community. At the same time, two young women disappear, each returning several days later with little memory of where she has been. As Wexford investigates, Kingsmarkham is rocked by violence and murder. To prevent further harm, the inspector must coax some surprising motives from the reluctant suspects. Narrator Davina Porter gives an absorbing performance of Rendell's finely-crafted, suspenseful work.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13523326</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13523326</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13523326981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980013518/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Road Rage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A proposed highway through a forest near Kingsmarkham has caused loud cries of protest. One group has taken more drastic measures. It will risk everything-including the lives of five hostages-to halt construction. When Inspector Wexford learns that one of the hostages is his wife Dora, he is caught in a spiral of frustration and fear. The gripping drama of his search takes on added intensity through Davina Porter's crisp narration.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521291</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13521291</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13521291981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781980014058/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Unkindness of Ravens]]></title><description><![CDATA[Named as a life peer in the House of Lords in 1997, Ruth Rendell is also a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and the winner of three Edgars and four Golden Dagger Awards. Her Inspector Wexford mysteries thrill audiences around the globe with their complex plots and nuanced characters. As a favor to his wife, Inspector Wexford agrees to investigate the case of a missing husband. After gathering evidence, Wexford seems pretty certain that Joy Williams' husband simply ran off with a younger woman. But when Rodney Williams is found stabbed to death, Wexford does a little more digging. It seems that the murder is tied to a militant feminist group working in the area. They call themselves the Arria and they've taken the raven as their symbol.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13540855</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13540855</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13540855981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501989087/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Spot of Folly]]></title><description><![CDATA[These never-before-collected stories by Ruth Rendell-the three-time Edgar Award–winning mistress of dark suspense and one of the most celebrated thriller writers of the twentieth century-are "deliciously riveting, all the more so because Rendell's extraordinary ability to delve coolly and forensically into the dustiest nooks of the human psyche is amplified, not diminished, by the short story form. . . . Often the reader is taken by the throat" (The Guardian). In "The Thief," a chance encounter with a stranger triggers the most destructive impulses in a vindictive pathological liar. A family shares an unnamable feeling of dread and a necessary denial to make it through the night in "Trebuchet." In the title story, a caddish boor can't help but boast of his infidelities. A historic murder weighs heavy on the unholy reputation of a quaint local landmark in "The Haunting of Shawley Rectory." And in "Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror," Rendell delivers a masterstroke of gasp-inducing brevity. Here are tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition, all dispatched with a wit so knife-edged and deviousness, so impeccably cool that it's little wonder Joyce Carol Oates hails Ruth Rendell as "one of the finest practitioners of her craft."]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12223729</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12223729</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12223729981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781504054812/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Inspector Wexford Mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Veiled One: "Why on earth?" wonders London's chief inspector Reginald Wexford when a sixtyish housewife is found garroted in a shopping mall garage, her body concealed under a velvet shroud. Before he can find the answer, he's nearly killed himself-by a politically motivated car bombing targeting his activist daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, Mike Burden. But when a strange mother and son are suspected, Burdon's trail leads him down a very twisted road. An Unkindness of Ravens: When a neighbor's husband vanishes, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects the cad most likely ran off with one of his girlfriends. However, there are a few nagging concerns, like the man's suspicious letter of resignation and his abandoned car. And is it just a fluke that his disappearance coincides with a rash of stabbings-all straight through the heart, all with male victims? Behind the seemingly placid domesticity of Wexford's Sussex neighbors, there's a growing web of tangling secrets, double lives, and triple-crosses.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12008127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12008127</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12008127981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781504048965/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Barbara Vine Mysteries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling Edgar Award winner, "unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time" (Patricia Cornwell). This trio of Barbara Vine mysteries provides undisputable evidence that "no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence" (Stephen King).  A Dark-Adapted Eye: Faith Severn never understood why her respectable aunt Vera snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But thirty years after Vera is condemned and hanged, a true crime writer's new investigation into the case is finally allowing Faith to see her family's unspeakable history and its bygone tragedy in a chilling new light. An Edgar Award winner, this "rich, beautifully crafted novel" (P. D. James) is Ruth Rendell "at her formidable best" (The New York Times Book Review).  The Chimney Sweeper's Boy: When celebrated author Gerald Candless dies at his clifftop home in Devon, his daughter Sarah is commissioned to write his admiring biography-only to discover her father's entire life was a lie. Now, Sarah fears that understanding all her father has hidden-and why-is the last thing she wants. A novel "about the power of taboos, transgressions, guilts, deceptions, horrors, [and] atonements" (Independent) from "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (Time).  The Brimstone Wedding: Mired in a loveless marriage and a troubled affair, Jenny Warner has only Stella Newland to confide in. A patient at the English nursing home where Jenny works, Stella is open to hearing all about Jenny's life. Stella understands; she has secrets too. When she gives Jenny the key to her house, it unlocks a mystery about the horrifying consequences of love-and Stella is drawn into a "dark, hypnotic story of romantic obsession" (The New York Times Book Review).]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12007762</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12007762</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12007762981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781504046244/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Corners]]></title><description><![CDATA[A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, accidental murders, and of one life's fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendell. When his father dies, Carl Martin, a philosophy graduate and struggling novelist, inherits a house in a trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number three was selling fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Now Dermot seizes a nefarious opportunity and begins to blackmail Carl, followed by his refusal to pay rent, and a truly creepy invasion of Carl's space. Ingeniously weaving together two storylines that finally merge in one shocking turn, Ruth Rendell describes one man's spiral into darkness-and murder-as he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape. This is masterful storytelling that gets under your skin, brilliant psychological suspense from Ruth Rendell.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11752320</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11752320</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11752320981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442391352/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Girl Next Door]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this psychologically explosive story, the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends. In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944-until one father forbids it-the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories? This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared. In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make-and the emotions behind them-remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11752459</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11752459</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11752459981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442375192/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Man's Nightingale]]></title><description><![CDATA[INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS.

From one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation a refined, probing, and intelligent mystery in the masterful Inspector Wexford series…more enthralling than ever after fifty years.

A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and wanted to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder?

Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovered the body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, and when he is invited by his old deputy to tag along with the investigators, he leaps at the chance.

As Wexford searches the Vicar's house, he sees a book on her bedside table. Inside the book is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket. Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave error in removing a piece of valuable evidence from the scene without telling anybody. Yet what he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Sarah Hussein. Is there more to her than meets the eye?

No Man's Nightingale is Ruth Rendell's masterful twenty-fourth installment in one of the great crime series of all time, an absorbing and rewarding mystery that explores issues of sexism, class, and racism.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12469912</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12469912</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12469912981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442366251/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The St. Zita Society]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life on Hexam Place appears orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens. But beneath this tranquil veneer, this quintessentially London world of servants and their masters is set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrat, the Still family's lazy au pair, assists Mrs. Still in keeping secret her illicit affair with a television actor-in exchange for pocket cash. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, tries to enlist her fellow house-helpers into a "society" to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, Dex, the disturbed gardener to several families on the block, thinks a voice on his cell phone is giving him godlike instructions-commands that could imperil the lives of all those in Hexam Place.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12438941</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12438941</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12438941981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442349810/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fatal Inversion]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a young man moves into a recently inherited Suffolk manor house, he falls into a summer idyll that gathers friends and strangers alike-and concludes in murder When the new owners of Wyvis Hall go to bury a dear pet dog, they stumble upon a ghastly relic left by the home's previous occupants: the bones of a woman and a small child, hastily interred. So opens a mystery set in motion a decade before when nineteen-year-old Adam Verne-Smith inherited the property and spent one debauched summer there with friends and a few aimless drifters. While most of Wyvis Hall's visitors that summer would go on to live respectable lives, two would never leave.   Now, investigators must piece together not only whodunit, but also to whom it was done, in this brilliantly constructed thriller.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553580</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553580</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11553580981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781453214831/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dark-Adapted Eye]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the Edgar Award–winning classic, a niece investigates the shocking secrets that condemned her once proud family Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist's startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family's story in a new light.   Set in post–World War II Britain, A Dark-Adapted Eye is both a gripping mystery and a harrowing psychological portrait of a complex woman at the head of a troubled family.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553511</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553511</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11553511981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781453214848/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Stairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Lizzie and Bell meet for tea after nearly two decades apart, the topic of conversation is murder-one that Bell herself committed When Elizabeth Vetch spots Bell for the first time in seventeen years, she chases her down in order to learn why her old friend committed a terrible murder all those years ago. Bell has been in prison ever since the mysterious events that took place at the House of Stairs, a London mansion full of over-privileged, overstuffed, and somewhat sinister boarders, landed her there. Now it's up to Lizzie to put together the pieces of her friend's-and her own-fateful past.   As the story behind Bell's crime unfolds, master of suspense Barbara Vine keeps readers guessing at the victim and the motive, letting the sword of Damocles hang over the heads of a fascinating and richly drawn cast of characters.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553698</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11553698</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11553698981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781453214893/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tigerlily's Orchids]]></title><description><![CDATA[INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS.

Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors?

When Stuart Font throws a housewarming party, he invites all the residents of his new building-among them, three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. He definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. But careful planning can only get a person so far. As it turns out, this party will be one everyone remembers.

Meanwhile, living in a town house opposite Stuart's building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairy tale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell.

In Tigerlily's Orchids, Ruth Rendell has written a darkly humorous and psychologically thrilling novel about the eccentric inhabitants of a London terrace-about the secrets they keep, and what they will do to hide them.]]></description><link>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12399910</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://grant.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12399910</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rendell, Ruth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://grant.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12399910981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442341890/MC.GIF&amp;client=lakep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>