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The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Wexford's only option is to wait and hope that the one surviving victim - the mother, Mrs Fanshawe - regains consciousness.

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. With the letter providing them with only one questionable lead to follow, Wexford and his sidekick Inspector Burden are compelled to make enquiries. They soon discover Anita is wealthy, flighty, and thoroughly immoral.

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her...

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Eugene Wren has moved his art gallery to a more upmarket area, cut back on his alcohol consumption and is dating a doctor. But for all his good intentions, he has a secret he is desperate she doesn't find out. Rendell's last book, "Not In The Flesh", has sold over 165, 000 copies in paperback. 'A roundabout of characters is set whirling along in an irresistibly readable, tragi-comic carnival. Dr Johnson's dictum could be amended here: the read...

Inghilterra, anni Ottanta. Victor Jenner è stato incarcerato per il ferimento di un poliziotto, David Fleetwood, a cui ha sparato durante la fuga dal luogo dove aveva appena commesso uno stupro. Dopo dieci anni esce di prigione e si trova a ricominciare tutto daccapo: non ha soldi, non ha un lavoro, non ha amici. Ha solo le sue vecchie, ossessive fobie. E così si rimette a cercare l'unica persona che lo ricolleghi al passato, Fleetwood, ormai ...

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Alan Goombridge si sente in trappola. Sposato a una donna che non ama, padre di due figli che non ha voluto, ha un lavoro noioso come manager in una sperduta filiale della Anglian Victoria Bank. Trascina la sua vita tra una mortale routine e il sogno di fuggire, dopo aver rubato alla banca il necessario per vivere un anno di libertà. Fino a che il destino non gli offre l'occasione di sparire davvero quando alcuni rapinatori assaltano la banca....

The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello...Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Stre...

The twenty-second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here and now...

The eleventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help, believing that Natalie is using a false identity, the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation.

From the "reigning queen of crime fiction" ("Time Out") comes the 22nd installment in the acclaimed Inspector Wexford series, which takes Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder--serial murder.

Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect . . . but will he be able to make him talk?

Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.

Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy wife who employs a series of repairmen for her sexual satisfaction. And Francine is a college student who witnessed her mother's murder and now must free herself from her father's manipulative second wife. Connected by strands of chance, their lives intersecting in the strangest of ways, these three people are on a...

Plans for a new highway that would cut through the lovely woods outside of Kingsmarkham have raised a massive local protest. The outburst turns deadly serious when a desperate group takes five hostages--including Chief Inspector Wexford's wife, Dora--and threatens to kill them. Combining high technology with his extraordinary detecting skills, Wexford and his team race to find the fanatics and their hostages. When the first body is found, Wexf...

When the Dades return home from a trip to Paris they find that their two teenagers and the babysitter have vanished. Could they have drowned in the recent flood caused by terrible rains? Unabridged. 9 CDs.

A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own. A compelling story of mysterious identity and untimely...

What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second ...

The new psychological thriller from the reigning Queen of British Crime. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a t...