New Releases by Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell now delivers an all-new collection of long and short story mysteries.

Sir Manuel Camargue had just announced his i ntention of taking a second wife, fifty years his junior. On the same cold winter''''s day he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue''''s death came by misadventure. ''

Investigating the disappearance of a missing girl, Chief Inspector Wexford discovers the murdered body of the person who last saw the girl alive and learns of another killing that may be connected

The Reverend Henry Archery has a problem. His son wants to marry the lovely, clever daughter of a man hanged sixteen years ago for a brutal axe-killing. So he decides that he must try and clear the dead criminal''s name. The girl''s mother has always maintained, in the teeth of the police''s evidence, that her daughter''s father was no murderer. And there are certain areas of doubt - more than one person had stood to gain by the victim''s death, for instance. So Archery starts digging. Soon, he unearths some disturbing fragments of previously buried information.

Faith Severn investigates the mystery of a family murder that her family tries it''s best to forget.

A sleeping life :The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. There was nothing to give Detective Chief Inspector Wexford her address, her occupation or even her identity - let alone any clues which might lead to her killer.

Collection of sixteen short stories featuring cats and crimes.

Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous woman and the bundle of cash she''d had in her pocket.

A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fianc?''s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide--only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness?. In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind.