Anthony Trollope

Ruth Rendell

Dr. Thorne

What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell's finest psychological thrillers.

A Judgement in Stone

13 Steps Down

Joan Aiken

Going Wrong

Ruth Rendell's latest psychological thriller. When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. Living opposite in reclusive isolation is a young, beautiful Asian woman christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House.

Tigerlily's orchids

End in Tears (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)

The vault

"A Ruth Rendell Mystery 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. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . . 'A beautiful double-take plot. And characters seen with compassion. Her best yet!' H. R. F. KEATING THE TIMES"

The Face of Trespass

And Other Stories

Piranha to Scurfy

A Novel

The Minotaur

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

King Solomon's Carpet

Gallowglass

The Keys to the Street

The Blood Doctor

Dark-Adapted Eye,a

A Fatal Inversion

Barbara Vine

The House of Stairs

No night is too long

Eleven stories deal with murder, complex family relationships, and the psychology of killers

Long and Short Stories

Blood Lines

Ruth Rendell

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