Name: The Keys To The Street
Rating: 3.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9781409068693

Ruth Rendell

London's wealthiest, poorest, kindest and most dangerous citizens all cross paths in Regent's Park. All it takes to bring them together is a series of brutally gruesome murders... Mary Jago has donated her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a horrible break-up with her abusive boyfriend. Moving to the affluent edge of London's famous Regent's Park, Mary believes she has finally escaped the threat of violence. She never thought that one simple act of kindness could put her own life in mortal danger...

The Keys To The Street

A young, aristocratic woman from London volunteers to donate bone marrow to save the life of a homeless man, while a vicious stalker in the city's Regents Park terrorizes its dwellers in a shockingly brutal fashion

A Novel of Suspense

The Keys to the Street

Eugenia Andino

Muy Ruth Rendell: una historia de vidas cruzadas y gente solitaria, con problemas mentales o de otro tipo, con asesinatos de fondo casi como excusa para generar suspense. No es un esquema clásico de novela negra o de misterio.

Arjo Gupto

Julie Viravaux

Set in and around London's Regent's Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, The Keys to the Street tells of the deadly thanks a young woman risks receiving in return for an act of selfless generosity. "Is it true that we dislike those who have done us a service?" asks Mary Jago's grandmother. One of many questions about the best and worst of human nature, it is one with an answer Mary will discover for herself as a consequence of donating her own bone marrow to save the life of a young man she doesn't know.... "It's us he's after," says Dill, "our sort." Dill's sort are the homeless who seek refuge in the park, whose corpses have lately been turning up impaled on the spiked railings that surround it.... Mary is not their sort at all and would under ordinary circumstances be separated from such horror by social barriers stronger than iron bars. But she has performed a bold act, and the circumstances of her life are now extraordinary -- she is receptive to previously undreamed of happiness, and vulnerable to the darkest grief. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

The Keys To The Street

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