Ruth Rendell

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

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....

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

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'....

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?....

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

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

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

A simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex....

Two damaged children. Teddy became a handsome young man, Francine was beautiful - a sight for sore eyes. But it was death that brought them together....

The massacre at Tancred House seems at first to be the work of a burglar, panicked into killing. But Chief Inspector Wexford believes there are links with the murder of a Kingsmarkham detective....

Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair....

Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags....

The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, blonde, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy....

Alan Groombridge had a fantasy....

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....

A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and one life’s fateful unraveling....

In the waning months of the Second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighbourhood outside London....

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

'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford....