Ruth Rendell

When Ismay thinks of that terrible day, and she often does, she remembers Heather coming down the stairs, her dress wet, her face as still and white as a porcelain mask....

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while....

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way....

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

When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming 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.

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

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.....

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

In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows....

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

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

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....

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'....

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

The discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends....