Synopsis
A crime thriller, from the author of A DEMON IN MY VIEW and LIVE FLESH, in which a man who has won a hundred thousand pounds on the pools decides to use some of his new-found wealth to help out those less fortunate than himself.
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"Ruth Rendell is surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language."- Scott Turow
"Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such a literate voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime."- "Los Angeles Times
""Rendell's clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."-" The New Yorker"
"Ruth Rendell is surely one of the greatest novelists presently at work in our language."- Scott Turow
"Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such a literate voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime."- Los Angeles Times
"Rendell's clear, shapely prose casts the mesmerizing spell of the confessional."- The New Yorker
About the Author
Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Ruth Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England."
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