Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s
reigning queen. In Portobello, she delivers a captivating and
intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several
people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting
Hill.
A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who
Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in
the English-speaking world.”
When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed.
When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed.
The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The
Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn
novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream.
The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The
Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspector Wexford
novel.
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person.
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person.
On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her
family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She
had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between
her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where
she'd been or why she'd been away.
