The Monster in the Box: (A Wexford Case) - Couverture rigide

Rendell, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091931487 ISBN 13 : 9780091931483

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2009

Synopsis

The twenty-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.

The past is a haunted place...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth Rendell is the Queen of British crime writing. The author of over 50 novels, she has won many significant crime fiction awards. Her first novel, From Doon With Death, appeared in 1964, and since then her reputation and readership have grown steadily with each new book.

She has received major awards for her work; three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America; the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for 1976's best crime novel, A Demon in My View; the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 for The Lake of Darkness; the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for 1986's best crime book for Live Flesh; in 1987 the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for A Fatal Inversion and in 1991 the same award for King Solomon's Carpet, both written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine; the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990; and in 1991 the Crime Writer's Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre.

Her books are translated into 21 languages. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Praise for Ruth Rendell's Wexford novels

'Chief Inspector Wexford is Rendell's most enduring and best creation' Daily Telegraph

' Like Wexford, Rendell's vision of human behaviour is intensely moral and often uncompromising. In an age of victimhood, this is as bracing as it is courageous.' Sunday Times

'The Wexford books clearly display Rendell's great mastery of storytelling at its best' Sunday Telegraph

Praise for Portobello

'Ruth Rendell is marvellous at psychological tension... she knits all the threads together with a casual flourish that shows veteran expertise.' - Sunday Times

'An irresistibly readable, tragi-comic carnival' - Independent

'A thriller steeped in psychological intrigue' - Daily Mirror

'Captivating... Her deft sculpturing of characters' idiosyncratic obsessions and foibles betrays a shrewdness of perception of which even the absent Wexford would be proud.' - Time Out

'An absorbing story ... She portrays the Portobello area, a melting-pot to the poor and the posh, with harsh, realistic affection bordering on the elegiac' The Times

'Ruth Rendell's sense of place and disdain for her characters elevates a sordid case of arson into an artful exploration of sinister self-delusion.' - Books of the Year, Evening Standard

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

'Wexford had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the stalking, not the stares or the conspiratorial smiles, not the killings, not any of the signs Targo had made because he knew Wexford knew and could do nothing about it.'

Chief Inspector Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.

Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many had their suspicions that her husband was guilty, no one was convicted.

Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. And it was Eric Targo. A psychopath who would kill again...

As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case, Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career, even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The past is a haunted place, with clues and passions that leave an indelible imprint on the here and now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091931487
• ISBN 13: 9780091931483
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible