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Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories
Ruth Rendell
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Description for Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories
Paperback. This collection of long and short stories probes the patterns of everyday life to pinpoint the frailties, the desires of deception, and the guilty secrets of human beings. It ends with "The Strawberry Tree", a novella-length tale of lost innocence set on the island of Majorca. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 132. Tear to front cover, otherwise v good
'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford, and so begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by the world's best living crime writer, Ruth Rendell.
It was clear both to Wexford and Burden that Tom Peterlee was not killed for £360, but various people would have liked them to believe the lie. It is a case which reminds the Chief Inspector that there is only a thin line dividing the policeman from the criminal. The criminal impulse may be present in the most routine or intimate situation.
The book ends with ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099784616
SKU
KTJ0007422
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels. With worldwide sales of ... Read more
Reviews for Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories
The words dropped, very precisely, like pebbles into a pool. They spread ripples of menace and foreboding . . . Ruth Rendell hasd the extraordinary faculty of summing up life in a single phraseor sentence . . . A mesmeric collection
Daily Telegraph
Disturbing, atmospheric, inventive and surprising . . . Rendell's capacity to enter the souls of ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Disturbing, atmospheric, inventive and surprising . . . Rendell's capacity to enter the souls of ... Read more