The Saint Zita Society

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385671668

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The Saint Zita Society by Ruth Rendell Pdf

Life in the well-manicured London locale of Hexam Place is not as placid and orderly as it appears. Behind the tranquil gardens and polished entryways, relationships between servants and their employers are set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord's wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrate, the Still family's lazy au pair, is helping to hide Mrs. Still's illicit affair with a television actor--for a small fee. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, is hard at work forming a "society" for servants to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, a disturbed gardener, Dex, believes a voice in his cellphone is giving him godlike instructions--that could endanger the lives of all who reside in Hexam Place. A deeply observed and suspenseful update to the upstairs/downstairs genre, The St. Zita Society is Ruth Rendell at her incisive best.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409068464

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Talking To Strange Men by Ruth Rendell Pdf

From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a strange, seductive and suspenseful psychological thriller with a cunning final twist that will get right under the skin. Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon. 'She is incapable of writing a sentence that is not invested with mystery and fear... I was totally transfixed. If you read it, you will not sleep well. And it is a marvellous piece of work' -- Today 'Difficult to put down... she begins with the everyday, the ordinary and transmutes it into an almost Gothic tale of suspense and quiet terror' -- Daily Express 'Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world' -- Ian Rankin 'Ruth Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched.'-- The Times 'Pure genius' -- ***** Reader review 'Gripping throughout' -- ***** Reader review 'Possibly her best' -- ***** Reader review 'A twisted, strange, compelling piece of brilliance' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************** Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play, unaware of the danger awaiting them if their messages were intercepted... John Creevey doesn't know the truth behind the mysterious codes he is reading. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications of dangerous and evil men. As he comes face to face with the reality of his beloved wife Jennifer's defection, he begins to see a way to get back at the man she left him for, a man with a disturbing connection to the schoolboys... And soon the schoolboys are playing more than just a game.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451666694

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The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell Pdf

The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who accepts fees for aiding her mistress' affair and disturbed gardener who believes he is receiving instructions from a god on his cellphone. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Tigerlily's Orchids. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645850724

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It Is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion by Scott Hahn,Brandon McGinley Pdf

Is religion a right given to us by the state? Is it an opium for the masses? Is it private opinion with no role in the public sphere? In It Is Right and Just, bestselling author Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley challenge our idea of religion and its role in society. Hahn and McGinley argue that to answer questions over religious liberty, justice, and peace, we must first reject the insidious lie perpetuated by secular-liberal culture: that religion is a private matter. Contrary to what political commentators and activists say, religion is not only relevant to justice and law, but is necessary for civilization to thrive. Recover the public nature of true religion, It Is Right and Just argues, and watch as a revolution unfolds. Find eternal answers to today’s political confusion right now—pre-order today and get a free ebook to begin reading immediately!

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781476784342

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The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell Pdf

"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and memories? This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Mild-mannered Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow who was once his teenage sweetheart. Michael, lonely after the death of his wife, considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the Children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared. In THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, Rendell brilliantly shatters our assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make--and the emotions behind them--remain as potent in late life as they were in youth"--

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Seal Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385673921

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End in Tears by Ruth Rendell Pdf

The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspector Wexford novel. 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... One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence and humanity that make Ruth Rendell’s detective stories enthralling, exciting and very touching.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307829511

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Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell Pdf

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439154366

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Portobello by Ruth Rendell Pdf

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction’s reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London’s Notting Hill. Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction—and his own good intentions—Wren hatches a plan to find the money’s rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners—people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren’s life—and the life of his trusting fiancée—the consequences will change them all. Portobello is a wonderfully complex tour de force featuring a dazzling depiction of one of London’s most intriguing neighborhoods—and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer.

Author : James Bogle,Joanna Bogle
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0852441738

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A Heart for Europe by James Bogle,Joanna Bogle Pdf

Author : Karin Fossum
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547577524

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The Caller by Karin Fossum Pdf

Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409007869

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Blood Lines by Ruth Rendell Pdf

'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford, and so begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by the world's best living crime writer, Ruth Rendell. It was clear both to Wexford and Burden that Tom Peterlee was not killed for £360, but various people would have liked them to believe the lie. It is a case which reminds the Chief Inspector that there is only a thin line dividing the policeman from the criminal. The criminal impulse may be present in the most routine or intimate situation. The book ends with The Strawberry Tree, a disturbingly evocative novella-length tale of lost innocence, set on the island of Majorca. It is a triumphant conclusion to a collection of horror stories that linger in the mind.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451624106

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The Vault by Ruth Rendell Pdf

When four bodies are discovered in a house in St. John's Wood, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail of clues, only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476744490

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No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell Pdf

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS From “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” (People) a “refined, probing, and intelligent” (USA TODAY) mystery in the masterful Inspector Wexford series…more enthralling than ever after fifty years. A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and wanted to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder? Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovered the body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, and when he is invited by his old deputy to tag along with the investigators, he leaps at the chance. As Wexford searches the Vicar’s house, he sees a book on her bedside table. Inside the book is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket. Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave error in removing a piece of valuable evidence from the scene without telling anybody. Yet what he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Sarah Hussein. Is there more to her than meets the eye? No Man’s Nightingale is Ruth Rendell’s masterful twenty-fourth installment in one of the great crime series of all time, an “absorbing and rewarding” (Seattle Times) mystery that explores issues of sexism, class, and racism. As Stephen King said: “No one surpasses Ruth Rendell.”

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439150337

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The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell Pdf

From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 9780099271451

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A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell Pdf

In traditional fairytales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after. But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most terrible