Bøger af Ruth Rendell

A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1980. Martin Urban wins the pools and decides to help those less fortunate. Finn also comes into money and wants to help people - but only if the price is right. The good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the macabre madness of the other.

The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When a young, black woman goes missing in Kingsmarkham, Wexford must respond to a test not only of his powers of deduction, but of his basic beliefs and prejudices.

The seventeenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A by-pass is planned in the sleepy village of Kingsmarkham, a move that would destroy its peace and natural habitat forever. Wexford's wife Dora joins the protest movement, but Wexford must be more circumspect.

She never thought that one simple act of kindness could put her own life in mortal danger. When the bodies of local homeless people are found impaled on the park's railings, violently murdered by a deranged serial killer, Mary could not have suspected a connection to herself.

The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. Trinkets very similar to those mysteriously appearing in Inez's shop. Since her actor husband died, too early into their marriage, Inez supplemented her modest income by taking in tenants above the shop.

The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. The second novella, High Mysterious Union, explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer, expanding beyond her famous sphere of crime writing.

The 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.

A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979 and shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel in 1980. Alan Groombridge is trapped.

He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice.Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds.

The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. The teenagers are fifteen and thirteen, the sitter's in her thirties, they can all swim and the house is miles above the floods. There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of Giles.

And it was Susan whose own life would be imperilled by a monstrous crime far beyond the imaginings of the vilest gossiping tongues. A classic Rendellian murder mystery.

The Copper Peacock: a hideous bookmark given to Bernard, a writer, by his attractive cleaning lady, Judy.

But as the wealthy Leonora grew older, they grew apart, and Guy's innocent love turned into a dangerous, psychopathic obsession. When Leonora announces her engagement , Guy knows there must be some mistake - and he is determined to right it, at any cost.

Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamishness where death was concerned. Philip's feminine ideal is the statue of the Roman goddess Flora in his mother's garden. The two embark on a passionate affair that soon becomes dangerous when Senta sets Philip a test;

A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl in a red car, driving rather too fast. Only later does he learn of the car park victim, murdered with a length of wire.

Includes three mysteries - "From Doon With Death"; "A New Lease of Death"; and, "The Best Man to Die".

The messages were coming in thick and fast. Coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen. But the messages were a lifeline to John - a means of getting back his wife and perhaps a way to harm the man who had seduced her away from him.

Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. And suddenly Victor's new life is starting to look an awful lot like the old one.

The thirteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol of a militant feminist group...

Alice Whittaker was 37, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life a lonely failure, she had got by with the one thing she did have - money. Then handsome Andrew Fielding came into her life, and just as suddenly her beautiful friend, Nesta, vanished from it - leaving a trail of confusing clues.

The twelfth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Wherever Reggie Wexford goes, death and intrigue are close on his heels.

There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law's money. And in all those years it has never once occurred to Stanley that she would try to outsmart him and the money might never be his.

When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified. She has almost no knowledge of a world described by her mother as evil and destructive. Their strange, enclosed life together is over because Eve has killed a man. And he is not the first.

The fifteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year.

But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighbourhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasp stings Patrick suffered at the end of the evening.

Four 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 illiterate housekeeper, shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television.

Her white face stared blankly back at him. He fancied that she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. There had been only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and, advancing now, smiling, he did it.

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. . .

Da to biler kører ind under en bro, bliver en betonklods i det samme vippet ud oppe fra den. Føreren af den bagerste bil, den 18-årige Amber Marshalson, ser chokeret til, da bilen foran hende bliver knust. Kort tid efter bliver Amber brutalt slået ned og dør foran sit hjem. Det er overlagt mord.Det går snart op for kriminalkommissær Wexford, at der er en sammenhæng mellem de to episoder. Men hvem kan dog være så fast besluttet på at ville en ung kvinde til livs? Opklaringsarbejdet griber på dramatisk vis ind i Wexfords eget privatliv.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, hvor krimigenren blev fravalgt."Sådan skal en krimi skrives!" – Jyllands-Posten"Entydigt vor tids mest fremragende krimiforfatter." Patricia CornwellWexfordserien 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.

En morder med tilnavnet Rottweileren hærger i London. Rottweileren kvæler sine ofre og plejer gerne at tage en lille ting fra dem.Inez Ferry ejer en antikvitetsforretning i nærheden af Rottweilerens seneste gerningssted. Hun lejer også de øverste etager i sit store hus ud for at få det hele til at løbe rundt. Den temmelig brogede flok af lejere har deres daglige gang i butikken, og da en genstand fra ét af mordofrene pludselig dukker op her, står det klart, at morderen måske skal findes blandt husets beboere …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, hvor krimigenren blev fravalgt.