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Three Barbara Vine Mysteries

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504046242
Total Pages : 861 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Three Barbara Vine Mysteries written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Talking to Strange Men

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453210911
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strange Men written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely man stumbles into a dangerous game in this twisting novel of psychological suspense by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Crocodile Bird. In a desolate alley on the bank of the Thames, a spy slips through the shadows. Mungo is the Director General of English intelligence, and he knows Moscow Centre has been watching him for weeks, but there is no spy in London better at losing a tail. Satisfied he hasn’t been followed, he drops off his message and disappears into the night. It’s a classic scene of Cold War espionage, save for one detail: Mungo isn’t a spy at all. He’s a teenager, playing an epic game of make-believe. John Creevey, still reeling from the implosion of his marriage, is dreaming of taking revenge against his wife’s lover when he discovers one of Mungo’s coded signals. Unaware that the message is simply part of a child’s game, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the rest of the spy network—a tragic misunderstanding that threatens to turn this imaginary war into something very real—and very deadly. “Rendell has brilliantly interwoven these compelling strands into one masterful tale of suspense,” writes Library Journal. Three-time Edgar Award winner Ruth Rendell was a master of psychological suspense, and Talking to Strange Men is one of the most unusual espionage stories in the history of the Cold War.

The Child's Child

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241963591
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Child's Child written by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Child's Child is the new crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine, pen-name for the late bestselling author Ruth Rendell What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart? When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house, they surprise few people by deciding to move in together. But they've always got on well and the London house is large enough to split down the middle. There's just one thing they've not taken into account though. What if one of them wants to bring a lover to the house? When Andrew's partner James moves in, and immediately picks a fight about the treatment of gay men, the balance is altered - with almost fatal consequences. Barbara Vine's is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and The Child's Child is the first book she has published under that name since The Birthday Present in 2008. It's an intriguing examination of betrayal in families, and of those two once-unmentionable subjects, illegitimacy and homosexuality. A taut, thrilling read, it will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James and Ian Rankin. 'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire and greed. Ruth rendall has published fourteen novels under the Vine name, two of which, Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet, won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Also available in Penguin by Barbara Vine: The Minotaur, The Blood Doctor, Grasshopper, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, The Brimstone Wedding, No Night is Too Long, Asta's Book, King Solomon's Carpet, Gallowglass, The House of Stairs, A Dark-Adapted Eye.

A Dark-adapted Eye

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140086362
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book A Dark-adapted Eye written by Barbara Vine and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most families they had their secrets ...;And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder. 'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James

Not in the Flesh

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307410323
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Not in the Flesh written by Ruth Rendell and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.

A Fatal Inversion

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : [Middlesex, England] : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670809776
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Fatal Inversion written by Ruth Rendell and published by [Middlesex, England] : Viking. This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman.

Tigerlily's Orchids

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439150397
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Tigerlily's Orchids written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Asta's Book

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141040459
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Asta's Book written by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.

The House of Stairs

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451402110
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The House of Stairs written by Barbara Vine and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old and quaint house is the setting for murder when it becomes populated by a number of people.

A Demon In My View

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409067807
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Demon In My View written by Ruth Rendell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon, this haunting insight into the mind of a pathological criminal is one of multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell's most terrifying novels... 'Rendell is unrivalled at depicting psychologically warped people and at creating unease through the simplest things. This is another triumph' -- Observer 'Wonderful at exploring the dark corners of the human mind, and the way private fantasies can clash and explode into terrifying violence' -- Daily Mail 'Brilliantly written' -- ***** Reader review 'Absolutely fantastic!' -- ***** Reader review 'Mesmerizing' -- ***** Reader review 'Intensely absorbing' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************** Arthur Johnson doesn't look like a murderous psychopath; he is a mild-mannered man who has never known how to talk to women. Years of loneliness has warped his mind, turning his desire for a woman's love and respect into a pathological need for carefully controlled violence. Locked in the cellar of his building is the perfect willing victim, a woman who can be murdered over and over again, a woman who waits for Arthur every night...a mannequin in the form of a female. But when a young scholar of psychopathic personalities moves in downstairs and Arthur's mannequin disappears, where will he turn to satisfy his urgent craving for violence?

A Fatal Inversion

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141040475
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Fatal Inversion written by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms.In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?

The Killing Doll

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453210830
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Killing Doll written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl experiments with the occult to keep her family together in this psychological thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners. In a quiet house in the London suburb of Manningtree, fifteen-year-old Pup and his emotionally damaged older sister, Dolly, have become closer than ever since the death of the their mother. Pup’s bookish obsession with witchcraft gives their disordered life a sense of purpose. Dolly isn’t sure what to expect from the talisman Pup makes her, until their father brings home a vulgar new wife. Then, Dolly, resentful and suddenly empowered, makes a deadly wish—the first of many. In a depressed neighborhood on the other side of town, a paranoid hermit has been questioned in a series of brutal murders. Lately, he’s taken to living in a tunnel behind a fort of mattresses, where he keeps his knives. Soon, his life and the lives of Pup and Dolly will converge. As one of them struggles toward something close to sanity, the other two will descend even further into darkness. “Only Rendell can show us how chillingly easy it is for ordinary people to slide into criminal behavior,” and in The Killing Doll, the tumble is relentless (Oprah.com). “Rendell, who perfected the art of the truly suspenseful psychological thriller” is a three-time recipient of the Edgar Award, and the author of numerous bestsellers (The Boston Globe).

No Night is Too Long

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241964938
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book No Night is Too Long written by Barbara Vine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Night is Too Long is a classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine Tim Cornish thought he'd gotten away with murder. For months after he'd killed his lover off the Alaskan coast, there hadn't been a word. But then the letters started to arrive. It seems that someone knows what Tim has done . . . This compelling thriller delivers such a dark picture of romantic love that murder seems its natural mate. Frightening, suspenseful, and deeply unsettling, No Night is Too Long is a modern crime masterpiece and will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James and Ian Rankin. 'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire and greed' Sunday Times Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. Ruth has published fourteen novels under the Vine name, two of which, Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet, won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Also available in Penguin by Barbara Vine: The Minotaur, The Blood Doctor, Grasshopper, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, The Brimstone Wedding, No Night is Too Long, Asta's Book, King Solomon's Carpet, Gallowglass, The House of Stairs, A Dark-Adapted Eye.

Three Novels

Author : Barbara Vine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140138443
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Three Novels written by Barbara Vine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wexford

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099566403
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Wexford written by Ruth Rendell and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three complete Wexford mysteries in one volume- FROM DOON WITH DEATHMargaret Parsons was predictable, ordinary woman, but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there seemed no motive or clue... 'One of the best' - SUNb>A NEW LEASE OF DEATHThere was no doubt in Chief Inspector Wexford's mind... Painter had done it and he'd been hanged for it. But now, 15 years later, someone wants history changed and Wexford proved wrong! 'A cause for scelebration' - SPECTATORi>i>b>THE BEST MAN TO DIEb>as it just a coincidence that Charlie Hatton, a cocky little lorry driver, had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe's regaining consciousness? And was it murder or not? 'The mistress of mystery' - DAILY MIRROR"

Going Wrong

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453211071
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Going Wrong written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author: A chilling psychological thriller about one man’s murderous obsession with his childhood sweetheart. Growing up in the roughest part of London, Guy Curran never imagined he would fall in love with a rich girl. But from the moment he meets Leonora Chisholm, he knows it’s their destiny to be together. They have a short, passionate teenage fling—over almost before it begins. Leonora moves on, but Guy never will. His love for her is dangerous, and it will destroy them both. Over the next ten years, Guy becomes a millionaire, selling hard drugs and bad art to the jet set of Western Europe. He and Leonora remain friends, sharing weekly lunches—until the day he learns she’s fallen in love with someone else. Seized by murderous jealousy, Guy is about to embark on a mad quest to claim the woman he desires—or die trying. “Rendell is a master of depicting the long, slow slide into madness” and Going Wrong shows her brilliant ability to walk the line between elegance and terror (Publishers Weekly).

Dark Corners

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501119435
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Dark Corners written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail, and a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves. Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation and deep humanity, this is Rendell at her most memorable and best.