Ruth Rendell

Wexford is shopping for his wife’s birthday present when the body of a strangled woman is discovered nearby....

Inspector Wexford and his assistant Burden unravel the threads connecting the drowning of an elderly, world-renowned flautist and the murder of a woman whose identity confounds them.....

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

Charlie Hatton wanted fast money and conspicuous success, and he was prepared to cut any corners to get them....

The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer 'The Rottweiler'....

Wexford can’t be bothered when a woman complains of a runaway husband. But his disappearance takes on a new urgency when a second woman reports her husband is missing too.....

Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a pedophile who has been recently released back into the community but cannot foresee a series of serious crimes waiting to happen....

Ruth Rendell takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder—serial murder....

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....

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....

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

The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, blonde, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy....

Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage....

Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles....

Previously uncollected and unpublished: new short stories from a master of psychological suspense. New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness....

Fifteen years after the Painter case had been closed, someone wants the case re-examined, history changed, and Wexford proved wrong....

With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease....

Sent to London for a rest by his doctor....

Wexford is horrified by the carnage he encounters at Tancred Manor, home of a famous anthropologist, but he is determined to do all that he can for 17-year-old Daisy....

Someone must have had good reason to murder Mrs Elizabeth Nightingale on a dark September night....