A New Lease of Death - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091742919 ISBN 13: 9780091742911

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1990

Synopsis

Part of a new series of paperbacks designed as a collector's set, this novel is the one in which Wexford handles his first murder alone. Ruth Rendell has won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for her novel "A Demon in My View" and an Edgar Award for her story "The New Girl Friend".

About this title

Review:

"One of the best novelists writing today" (P.D James)

"Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear" (Sunday Times)

"Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding" (The Times)

"Rendell never fails to come up trumps, and her millions of admirers will eagerly consume this offering as they have all the others" (Irish Times)

"Ruth Rendell's mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched" (The Times)

Book Description:

The second book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down.

Some crimes aren't so easily solved...

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0091742919
• ISBN 13: 9780091742911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186