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Previously uncollected and unpublished short stories from a master of psychological suspense. Introduction from Sophie Hannah.

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Her white face, beautiful, stared blankly back at him. He fancied she had cringed, her slim body pressing further into the wall behind her. He didn't speak. He had never known how to talk to women. There was only one thing he had ever been able to do to women and now, smiling, he did it.

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The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

Even the dead have something to hide...

The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock.

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Teddy Brex emerges from a loveless, isolated childhood as a handsome but autistic young man. Francine Hill, traumatised by the murder of her mother, grows into a beautiful young woman, who must endure the protectiveness of an obsessive stepmother. Teddy Brex does ride to her rescue, but he is a man who has already committed two murder... twice.

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"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe. Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved" This old nursery rhyme is a favorite of Jerry Leach, a handsome ne'er do well, who sponges off women. Five women, unknown to each other, are his willing victims. But Jerry, almost accidentally, becomes the victim of one of his female prey.

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The thirteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol of a militant feminist group...

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This collection of long and short stories probes the patterns of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires of deception, and the guilty secrets of human beings. It ends with "The Strawberry Tree", a novella-length tale of lost innocence set on the island of Majorca.

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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.

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Presents a collection of short stories from Ruth Rendell. This work comprises of stories such as: "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy".

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The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person.

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Guy still believed that Leonora loved him, as she had when she was a young girl, when he led a street gang around London's Notting Hill Gate, a world away from her family home in Holland Park. Leonora's mother didn't care for her dark-looking boyfriend, especially when she found out about the shoplifting, and the drugs.

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Two young girls disappear, but return home unharmed some days later. Around the same time, a convicted paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkham are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands.

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In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry and has chosen Mary. The threat to the girls world is removed, however, when Mary falls to her death.

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All his life Victor had had a phobia. In prison he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, the panics and the violent anger. He asked himself why the child of happily married, middle class parents should have needed to make motiveless attacks on women.

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A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979. Alan Groombridge is married to a woman he doesn't like, is a bank manager of a tiny branch, and is doomed to a life of boredom and tedious routine. All that saves him is a fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money for just one year of freedom.

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The expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy. Then a second woman went missing on the moor, and a sense of dread gripped the fifty local men who searched for her.

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The sixth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and, all too quickly, they discover chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case.

Then the letters begin.

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The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. The second novella, High Mysterious Union, explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer, expanding beyond her famous sphere of crime writing.

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The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. There is nothing safe about Portobello...

Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes.

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A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham, which will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. A protest movement forms locally and trouble is expected. However, before the protestors can make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered.

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The ninth book to feature the classic crime-solving Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Wexford's curiosity only deepens when he discovers that the Hathall household has been meticulously cleaned but for a single distinctive palm print.

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Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case.

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When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. Through a web of lies and deceit Wexford uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier, and he realises that never has he witnessed a murder of such desperate passion.

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The messages were coming in; coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen. Was it a major spy ring A drugs gang Or a protection racket Whatever they were, to John Creevey the messages were a lifeline - a means of getting back his wife and harming the man who seduced her.