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Archie and Archie by Ruth Rendell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
This is a charming story of a cat and a dog who live on the same street for younger readers, from bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Archie the cat and Archie the dog live next door to each other on a street full of feline friends and foes. Read about their adventures - including Archie the cat spending a ...Show more
Collected Stories by Ruth Rendell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: good
This title features three classic Ruth Rendell stories: "Means of Evil", "The Fallen Curtain" and "The Fever Tree". Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices, from Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all ...Show more
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mis ...Show more
End In Tears by Ruth Rendell
$39.90 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A lump of concrete, dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road, kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daugh ...Show more
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Wexford
A 50th anniversary edition of the first Inspector Wexford novel, with an introduction by Ian Rankin and a new afterword by Ruth Rendell. An ordinary life. An extraordinary death. The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons. With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Ch ...Show more
No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parents - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's church. But it came as a profound shock to everyone when she was found strangled in the vicarage. A g ...Show more
Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a ...Show more
Portobello by Ruth Rendell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello. Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an a ...Show more
The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
This is the dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. 'For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. Bu ...Show more
The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
$39.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
When Wexford starts out as a young police officer, he is involved with a murder case where the perpetrator is not brought to justice. All these years, Wexford has harboured suspicions about the possible killer, who suddenly returns to Kingsmarkham. There are other apparently unrelated deaths, and once m ...Show more
The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour.' Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-paint ...Show more
The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour'. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-paint ...Show more
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