Ruth Rendell

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....

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....

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.....

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.....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an S rather than a C) is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt dogged by ill-luck....

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

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of....

All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?....

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

Senta Pelham is a mirror image of Flora, the lovely marble bust Philip fanaticized about for so long....

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

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....