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Rendell, RuthSummary: This six tales of suspense examines the jealous, betrayals, and resentments that lead to tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media U.S. 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIVRendell, Ruth
Summary: "A story set in London of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one man's spiral into darkness as he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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Summary: Inspector Wexford, who years ago suspected that Eric Targo was the killer in Wexford's first murder case, spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
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Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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Summary: A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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Summary: 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 aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: Rendell's novel finds Inspector Wexford getting pulled out of retirement to assist with a chilling case involving four bodies--three old and one new--found down an unused coal hole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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Summary: In Blood Relations, one of 11 stories in the collection, a woman discovers her stepfather's beaten body and says she has no idea who could have done it. But Inspector Wexford is convinced it was a family killing. A tale of infidelity, avarice and spouse abuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1996
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Contents: The fallen curtain.--Means of evil.--The fever tree.--The new girl friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1981
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Summary: In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a palely beautiful woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Two men rent flats in the same house, but their paths rarely cross. Arthur is quiet, 50 and a bachelor. No one knows of the dark lusts that compel him to kill again and again. Anthony is a young student studying psychopathic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1999
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Summary: Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo--van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover--was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011