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From Doon With Death
Random House 2010; US$ 10.67The first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. No one believed Mr Parsons' fears for his missing wife. Until two days later she was discovered in the woods, her face swollen and her clothes damply clinging to her lifeless body. With no useful witnesses and a victim known only for her mundane life,... more...
The Babes In The Wood
Random House 2010; US$ 10.67The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. 'A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.' There hadn't been anything... more...
Harm Done
Random House 2010; US$ 10.67The eighteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A young girl disappears, then another. A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands... Chief Inspector Wexford is... more...
A Judgement In Stone
Random House 2010; US$ 6.66Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime. But the tragedy neither began... more...
End in Tears
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95The first death could have been an accident. When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record, Inspector Wexford is called in to investigate. He... more...
Harm Done
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a boyfriend.... more...
Piranha to Scurfy
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 12.00Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell. A self-appointed critic reads books only to catch out their errors of fact and usage, which he points out to their authors in vicious letters: Then one day he comes upon a book that attacks him . An elderly woman finally avenges herself on the man... more...
Not in the Flesh
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called ?the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.? 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: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred... more...
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95Minty?s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own decides not to pursue the matter. Fiona?s fiancé, Jeff, has... more...
The Babes in the Wood
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days... more...









