Böcker av Ruth Rendell

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family'...

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Eunice Parchman verkar vara det perfekta hembiträdet. Men under ytan döljer sig en dödligt farlig kvinna. Eunice har nämligen en hemlighet som hon är beredd att dö - eller döda - för att dölja: hon kan varken läsa eller skriva. Det ironiska ödet f...

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____________________________________ Featured in The Times Top 10 Crime Books of the Decade The twenty-fourth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological...

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The sixth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears - never to be seen again. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. And there was nowhere ...

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The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Nothing is ever quite what it seems... A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident. Strangely, no other car was involved and no cause has been found....

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The eighth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. The victim's...

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In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park are not streets, but worlds, apart. When these two worlds collide, the repercussions are fatal. Guy and Leonora were childhood swee...

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The Copper Peacock: a hideous bookmark given to Bernard, a writer, by his attractive cleaning lady, Judy. She had brought order to a hitherto chaotic life, but now the bookmark destroys all this, shattering his razor sharp sensibilities. If only s...

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The ninth book to feature the classic crime-solving Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Angela Hathall is found strangled in her bed but, shockingly, the murder of this meek and solitary woman sparks little emotion from her husband. Called in to in...

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The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Some cases are impossible to bury. It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even more so when it's your firs...

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With this rich range of unabridged stories we celebrate the very best of contemporary writers and writing. Among others the collections features thriller writer Ruth Rendell, witty William Boyd, the Japanese literary sensation Haruki Murakami, eve...

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Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the illiterate housekeeper, shot them down on a Sunday evening while the...

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The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Passion can be lethal. Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anita's character is as mysterious as her disappearance. There was no body, no crime - ...

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The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexfor...

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Once when Benet was about fourteen she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage - and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since Benet had seen her psychologically disturbed mother. So when Mopsa arrived at t...

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Regnet vräker ned över Sussex, floden Kingsbrook har svämmat över sina bräddar och åtskilliga hus står under vatten. Kommissarie Wexford har fullt upp med att hålla ett öga på floden som sakta men säkert äter sig in i hans egen trädgård, när en Ka...

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A 50th anniversary edition of the legendary Ruth Rendell's first novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell _______________________________________ An ordinary life. An extraordinary death. The trampled grass led...

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In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry and has chosen Mary. The threat to the girls world is remov...

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There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law's money. For twenty years, nearly all his adult life, the puzzles have been his only pleasure; his mother-in-law's money...

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Like any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole ne...

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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 fir...

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Eunice Parchman verkar vara det perfekta hembiträdet. Men under ytan döljer sig en dödligt farlig kvinna. Eunice har nämligen en hemlighet som hon är beredd att dö - eller döda - för att dölja: hon kan varken läsa eller skriva. Det ironiska ödet f...

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Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. It is a dark and forbidding place, but it is his.When the body of a young blonde woman is found there, her face horrifically disfigured, the victim of a merciless murderer, his beloved moor is tainted with su...

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The first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. 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 ...

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A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1980. Martin Urban wins the pools and decides to help those less fortunate. Finn also comes into money and wants to help people - but only if the price is right. The good intentions of the one become fata...

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Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bor...

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The fourteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet, looking like a heap of rags, the woman's dead body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia.In the d...

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The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.Even the dead have something to hide...The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock. C...

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Liza is not your average teenager. Sixteen years old, she lives with her mother, Eve, in a secluded gatehouse, which she has never been allowed to leave. There was only enough room for two in their cocoon; intruders entered at their peril, only to...

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The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.Passion can be lethal.Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anita's character is as mysterious as her disappearance. There was no body, no crime - no...

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