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Book SynopsisA collection of Ruth Rendell psychologically chilling murder mysteries. A wife plots her husband''s psychological destruction - then his murder; a son is ruined by his mother''s obsession; a man marries the woman he rescues from suicide, only to become the victim of her obsessiveness; and a family feud brings unimaginable horror.
Trade ReviewShe can make a scene between two women sitting in a café as violent as anything you’ve seen between a couple of guys with baseball bats * Mark Billingham *
Wonderful at exploring the dark corners of the human mind, and the way private fantasies can clash and explode into terrifying violence * Daily Mail *
Ruth Rendell gets into the mind not only of the hero but into the mind of the villain * Jeffery Deaver *
Rendell’s eerier capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish * The Times *
Once her characters start twisting on every-tightening tracks, their fates are brilliantly sealed, and it’s never obvouis who’ll be the victim or the culprit. Rendell’s greatest trick is making an unforeseen outcome feel predestined * Financial Times *
