RUTH RENDELL

Desde hace nueve años, Ismay tiene un sueño recurrente: sube las escaleras tras los pasos de su hermana menor, Heather, cuyo vestido se encuentra empapado. Al llegar al cuarto de baño del piso de arriba su madre le grita que no mire, pero ella ya ha visto el cuerpo de Guy, su padrastro, que yace ahogado en la bañera. Desgraciadamente para los S...

'Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?' This old nursery rhyme is a favourite of Jerry Leach (if that is the name he is using at the time), a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing victims. One he even married once and aband...

En 1968, la enfermera sueca Kerstin Kvist acepta un trabajo en Essex para estar cerca de Mark, su amante londinense. Su cometido es cuidar de John Cosway, quien ha perdido la cabeza y permanece recluido en su biblioteca. A su llegada a la decadente mansión de Lydstep Old Hall conoce a Julia, la matriarca, una anciana fría y obsesionada con que J...

Gwendolen Chawcer es una solterona octogenaria que vive entregada a la lectura y a la fantasía de un viejo amor, pero tan melancólica y plácida existencia se ve alterada cuando decide alquilar la planta de arriba de la mansión familiar en el barrio de Notting Hill. Su nuevo arrendatario, Mix Cellini, es un mecánico de máquinas de fitness con una...

'He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the stalking, not the stares or the conspiratorial smiles, not the killings, not any of the signs...

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a ...

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times ...

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...