Ruth Rendell

Desde hace nueve años, Ismay tiene un sueño recurrente: sube las escaleras tras los pasos de su hermana menor, Heather, cuyo vestido se encuentra empapado. Al llegar al cuarto de baño del piso de arriba su madre le grita que no mire, pero ella ya ha visto el cuerpo de Guy, su padrastro, que yace ahogado en la bañera.Desgraciadamente para los Sealand, la escena fue real antes de convertirse en sueño. Ahora, tras nueve años de secretos y silencio, tanto Ismay como Heather tienen novio. El de Ismay se parece sospechosamente al difunto Guy. El de Heather vive con una madre extremadamente posesiva. Dos situaciones conflictivas que hacen que Ismay no le quite el ojo de encima a su hermana...A medio camino entre el thriller y la comedia negra, El agua esta esplendida es una nueva muestra de la capacidad de Ruth Rendell para conducir al lector por los mas reconditos y oscuros laberintos de la mente humana.Comparable con P. D. James en la historia de la novela negra britanica, Rendell es la autora de la novela en que se baso el filme de Almodovar Carne tremula."Una sintesis perfecta de Patricia Highsmith y Georges Simenon". -El periodico."Solvente e impecable."-The New York Times Book Review

'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-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners, decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. Dex's most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile phone service provider, Peach, and he interprets the text notifications and messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him. And give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits...Accidental death and pathological madness cohabit above and below stairs in Hexam Place.

No Man''s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell''s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.The woman vicar of St Peter''s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage.Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is.So when he''s asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees.But why did the vicar die? And is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger?What Wexford doesn''t know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks.

No Man''s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell''s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter''s Church.But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage.A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon''s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine''s prattle.But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information.The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work.For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.

En torno a una mesa del pub Dugong, los trabajadores domésticos de la aristocrática callejuela londinense Hexam Place han creado una informal sociedad. Allí, criadas y conductores, mayordomos y cocineros, niñeras y au pairs se sienten liberados para contarse las miserias de sus trabajos y las manias de sus empleadores. pero, ¿hasta que punto son sinceros los unos con los otros? La llegada del jardinero Dex, un hombre recien salido del psiquiatrico que cree que los mensajes de su compañia de movil proceden de una voz divina, abrira una caja de Pandora llena de obsesiones, adulterios. y, quiza, asesinatos. Con la elegancia habitual en ella, Ruth Rendell nos ofrece un nuevo recorrido por los laberintos mas oscuros de la mente humana. A punto de cumplir cincuenta años de carrera literaria, esta gran dama de las letras inglesas es sinonimo del mejor thriller y de los mas perturbadores retratos psicologicos.

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. But once it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn't stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.' Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their secret place. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved on or disappeared. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret, buried a lifetime ago, and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must investigate a possible case of murder. In all her novels, Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche. The interconnecting tunnels of Loughton in The Girl Next Door lead to no single destination. But the relationships formed there, the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence - not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.

Four members of the Coverdale family died in the space of 15 minutes on St Valentine''s Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on that Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television, and was arrested two weeks later. But the tragedy neither began nor ended there.

Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anitas character is as mysterious as her disappearance. There was no body, no crime - nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. According to headquarters, it wasnt to be considered a murder enquiry at all.

Wexford believed hed solved Mrs Primeros murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyones mind. Until now... Henry Archerys son is engaged to Painters daughter. Only Archery cant let the past remain buried.

When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help, believing that Natalie is using a false identity, the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation. Events soon take a gruesome twist and the pressure is on for Wexford to discover Natalies true identity and to solve the mystery of the Camargue family, once and for all.

The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small b

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. But once it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn't stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.' Beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their place. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved - or disappeared. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a long buried grisly secret. And a weary detective, more concerned with current crimes, must investigate a case of murder. In all her novels, Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche. The interconnecting tunnels of Loughton in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR lead to no single destination. But the relationships formed there, and the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence - not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.

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. Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children''s clothes. El barrio de Portobello, situada en el oeste de Londres, tiene una personalidad muy rica y distintiva: vibrante, colorida, ruidosa, llena de graffitis que podrian figurar en catalogos de arte, estrafalaria y esplendida Y posee un indefinible toque que le añade una pizca de picante peligro a todo ello...