Ruth Rendell

Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight....

Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing....

Two damaged children. Teddy became a handsome young man, Francine was beautiful - a sight for sore eyes. But it was death that brought them together....

Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair....

Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion....

Alan Groombridge had a fantasy....

The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy....

In the waning months of the Second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighbourhood outside London....

A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and one life’s fateful unraveling....

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia....

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk....

A bypass is planned in Kingsmarkham, but before the protestors make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered....

When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need....

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while....

Sarah Hussain was not popular in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parents - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu....

There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law’s money....

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and their daughter....

With floods threatening his home, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing ....

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body has lain buried for ten years or so....

No one would have described Manningtree Grove as fashionable....