Bøger af Ruth Rendell

Kriminalassistent Wexford og hans kollega Burden gruer for den kommende musikfestival, hvor teenagere og hippier vil strømme til langvejsfra. Man ved aldrig, hvad der kan ske til en beatfestival! Festivallen når dog dårligt nok at komme i gang, før en ung kvinde bliver fundet myrdet i kalkbruddet. Wexford må fokusere på mordsagen, men samtidig er der noget ved festivallen, der tyder på, at kvindens mord kunne have forbindelse til nogle af festivaldeltagerne. Det bliver en kringlet sag for den garvede politimand.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.

Robert Hathall inviterer sin gnavne, gamle mor på besøg for, at hendes forhold til hans kone skal blive bedre, men det er ganske forgæves. Moren finder nemlig sin svigerdatter kvalt i soveværelset, inden hun overhovedet har nået at fornærme hende! Kriminalassistent Wexford bliver sat på sagen, og helt fra starten mistænker han ægtemanden uden at kunne komme med en konkret grund dertil. Han bliver igen og igen opfordret til at droppe mistanken til Robert – der er jo ingen beviser. Har Wexford stirret sig blind på den forkerte, mens den skyldige godter sig over at gå fri?Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.

Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.'Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug.

"On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of fifteen minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them one by one in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When the police arrest Miss Parchman two weeks later, they discover a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre, a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life"--

After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in this part of England. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.

A series of apparently motiveless murders disrupts the lives of some very different people in Rendell's darkly atmospheric London. The first victim was discovered with a bite on her neck. The police traced the DNA to the girl's boyfriend, but the tabloids had already dubbed the murderer "The Rottweiler," and the name stuck. The latest body was found near Inez Ferry's shop in Marylebone. Someone spotted a figure fleeing into the shadows, but couldn't say even if it was man or woman. The only other clues are the murderer's penchant for strangling his prey, and for then removing a small token -- a necklace, a lighter. To make ends meet, widowed Inez Ferry takes in tenants above her antique store. The unpredictable and obsessive acts of the serial murderer begin profoundly to disturb the lives of the heterogeneous little community of lodgers, especially when suspicion grows that one of them might be "The Rottweiler." "From the Hardcover edition.

The 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. But the disappearance of a three-year-old girl casts a more ominous light on events. And when the public's outrage turns toward a recently released pederast and another suspect turns up stabbed to death, Wexford must try to unravel the mystery before any more bodies appear, and before a mob of local vigilantes metes out a rough justice to their least favorite suspect. In Harm Done, the violence is near at hand, and evil lies just a few doors down the block.

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.

What kind of a person would kidnap two children?That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute.With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.

"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." -New York Times Book Review"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." -TIMEFaith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions-to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.

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?

Niveau B1Intermediate Level8. - 9. Klasse / 1.600 Wörter Chief Inspector Wexford und das Gericht sind sich sicher: Der Mord an einer alten Dame wurde von deren Angestellten Painter begangen. Doch dann stellt Henry Archery, dessen Sohn mit Painters Tochter verlobt ist, unbequeme Fragen...

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the problem facing Inspector Wexford in Shake Hands Forever. Perhaps it was the mystery woman who left her fingerprints on the Hathall's bathtub? Perhaps it was Angela's husband who lied about a stolen library book? And why was the Hathall home, usually so unkempt, exqisitely clean the day of Angela's death? Then a neighbor--friendly, knowing, disarmingly beautiful--offers Wexford her assistance. And what begins as a rather tricky case turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy the Inspector's career--as well as his marriage. Maddeningly addictive, smart and surprising, Shake Hands Forever showcases Ruth Rendell at the height of her storytelling powers.

Godsejerens kone bliver fundet død i skoven. Hun ligger med ansigtet nede i skovbunden med et dødeligt slag i hovedet. Udadtil ser livet på godset idyllisk ud, og det er svært at forestille sig, hvem der kunne finde på at myrde fruen. Men efterhånden som Wexford og hans kolleger giver sig til at grave i sagen, opdager de uhyggelige hemmeligheder, der gemmer sig bag den polerede facade.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.