The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part One

Wexford finds he is dealing with a very nasty case when nature-loving Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered on one of her ni

A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Two

A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Three

Shake Hands Forever: Part One

Angela Hathall is murdered, but Wexford can find no motive and no suspect. Maybe she picked up a stranger who killed her

Shake Hands Forever: Part Two

Shake Hands Forever: Part Three

No More Dying Then: Part One

The Kingsmarkham police investigate the disappearance of John Lawrence, a five-year-old boy.Seven-and-a-half months afte

No More Dying Then: Part Two

No More Dying Then: Part Three

A Sleeping Life: Part One

Wexford investigates when the dead body of a middle aged woman is found in a hedge - but there are no clues to the woman

A Sleeping Life: Part Two

A Sleeping Life: Part Three

Some Lie and Some Die: Part One

The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in L

Some Lie and Some Die: Part Two

Some Lie and Some Die: Part Three

The Best Man to Die: Part One

Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is on

The Best Man to Die: Part Two

The Best Man to Die: Part Three

An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One

Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.

An Unkindness of Ravens: Part Two

Put on by Cunning

When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. H

A New Lease of Death: Part One

A local clergyman is anxious to re-open a thirty-year-old murder case, which resulted in Harry Painter being hanged for

A New Lease of Death: Part Two

A New Lease of Death: Part Three

Murder Being Once Done: Part One

Wexford is staying in London with his nephew Howard, a police superintendent, convalescing from over-work and under doct

Murder Being Once Done: Part Two

Murder Being Once Done: Part Three

From Doon with Death: Part One

Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to King

From Doon with Death: Part Two

Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret

Means of Evil: Part One

Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.

Means of Evil: Part Two

The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One

Wexford is in China on a study tour of historic sites. To his amazement, he has psychic experiences, including a vision

The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two

The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three

The Mouse in the Corner: Part One

Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cav

The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two

An Unwanted Woman: Part One

Wexford investigates the killing of an elderly woman. Harry and Doreen Betts of Kingsmarkham are suspected of murdering

An Unwanted Woman: Part Two

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One

A Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wex

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four

Master of the Moor: Part One

Stephen Whalby is a young man living on the edge of the Moor, where since childhood he has spent most of his time alone.

Master of the Moor: Part Two

Part two of three. Stephen's passion for the moor fuels the detective's suspicions, as his neglected wife is driven into

Master of the Moor: Part Three

Conclusion. A secret hideaway from Stephen's childhood leads to him uncovering the identity of the Master of the Moor.

Vanity Dies Hard: Part One

Andrew Fielding, a good-looking young teacher, marries Alice Whittaker, a rich woman in her late thirties, more than ten

Vanity Dies Hard: Part Two

Part two of a moody whodunit from the pen of Britain's queen of crime fiction, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Ali

Vanity Dies Hard: Part Three

Part three. The spinster's suspicions grow when her best friend mysteriously disappears, and as illness takes control sh

The Strawberry Tree: Part One

Petra Summers is an attractive middle-aged woman with a past - and her past life is beginning to come back to haunt her.

The Strawberry Tree: Part Two

Continuing the drama about a wealthy widow who still grieves the loss of her brother.Petra is lonely. Will's constant at

A Dark Blue Perfume

A middle-aged man returns to his home town and meets the woman he was in love with as a teenager thirty years before. Li

Simisola: Part One

At first, this mystery seems to be a missing person case: Wexford's doctor asks for help in finding his daughter, Melani

Simisola: Part Two

Wexford visits the victim of another attempted murder in hospital, and notices a pink Volkswagen Beetle in the car park.

Simisola: Part Three

The Secret House of Death: Part One

Susan Townsend is a young woman who goes to see her reclusive next-door neighbour and finds him hacked to death. When an

The Secret House of Death: Part Two

Part two of two. Susan Townsend finds herself in danger as details of the double killing begin to emerge.

A Case Of Coincidence: Part One

The action begins in the year 1954, when a woman's body is found in the fen-land of Norfolk, and a murder investigation

A Case Of Coincidence: Part Two

Part two of two. Eddie Brannel's protests of innocence urge Masters to go against orders, and as a consequence he learns

The Double

Lisa meets Zoe, who is as much like her as an identical twin, but entirely out of the common rut - and dramatic events e

Bribery and Corruption: Part One

Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineer, recently made redundant and looking for a job in the boat-building industry. He

Bribery and Corruption: Part Two

Part two of two. Nick's attempted suicide implicates him in Emma's death and Annabel casts light on the mystery.

Thornapple

A boy obsessively collects poisons - and then he tries them out, with deadly results.

May and June: Part One

May Thrace and June Symonds are sisters, but their lives are very different. While June lives in the lap of luxury, May

May and June: Part Two

Front Seat

Hugh and Cecily Branksome retire to the seaside town where they grew up. There they meet again Arnold Cottle, an old boy

Going Wrong: Part One

As a teenager, Guy Curran leads a street gang and for three years is the lover of Leonora, whose middle-class background

Going Wrong: Part Two

Part two. While attending a party with Celeste, Guy argues with Leonora's brother. He then asks Danny to kill him - but

Going Wrong: Part Three

Part three of three. After losing the fight with William, Guy decides to forget Leonora and make it up to Celeste, but a

Road Rage: Part One

A Kingsmarkham bypass is planned which will take congestion and air pollution out of the town but put tarmac and heavy t

Road Rage: Part Two

A girl's badly decomposed body is found, and cabdriver Stanley Trotter is suspected of murder.

You Can't Be Too Careful

A psychological tale of two women who share an apartment, one outgoing and irresponsible, the other shy and neurotic. On

The Orchard Walls

n England, in June 1941, sixteen-year-old Jenny is evacuated from war-torn London to her Aunt Ella's house in rural Hamp

The Lake of Darkness

Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what

The Fallen Curtain

Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have h

Harm Done

Wexford copes with two abductions of teen-aged girls, the disappearance of a 3 year old from her bedroom, and the return