Collected Stories 2 - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091796830 ISBN 13: 9780091796839

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2008

Synopsis

The New Girl Friend was published in 1985, and the title story earned Rendell her second Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award. 'Every tale is carefully crafted and climaxed, her feel for lurking malevolence is as assured as ever.' -The Times

Then came The Copper Peacock in 1991, a collection of nine short horror stories in which 'the macabre potential of blameless situations such as village fetes, aquariums and even the broom cupboard are explored to provoke maximum unease in readers.' -Sunday Times

Blood Lines, first published in 1995, includes the long title story and a novella, The Strawberry Tree, as well as nine short murder mystery stories. 'Ruth Rendell remains one of the most stylish, chilling and challenging writers around.' -Tribune

Piranha to Scurfy, a collection of disturbing psychological short stories followed in 2000. 'Horror does not shake its gory locks directly at us, but hovers on the periphery of our inner vision, hidden among the ordinary, the everyday.' - Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

About this title

Review:

"Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head" (Maeve Binchy)

"Rendell's eerie capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish" (The Times)

"It's impossible to read the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement" (Sunday Times)

"Death seems cosy compared with the living Rendell describes... each story is like a condensed, polished novel" (Daily Telegraph)

"Rendell’s psychological novels remain in a class of their own" (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph)

Book Description:

The ultimately terrifying short story collection from Ruth Rendell, the world's best living crime writer and author of psychological thrillers including Thirteen Steps Down and Tigerlily's Orchids. An anthology packed to the brim with mystery, murder, pathological obsession and criminal madness... All set in the peaceful English countryside.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0091796830
• ISBN 13: 9780091796839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592