Published by Arrow, part of Cornerstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Ruth Rendell
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099474326
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EAN: 9780099474326
Published: 30 Jun 2005
A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice.
Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books.
Both landlady and lodger are caught up in their own psychologically twisted parallel worlds. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.
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Ruth Rendell is back to her creepy best.
- Daily Mail
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
One of her darkest and best.
- Literary Review
If Ruth Rendell were not slotted into the category of writer of mystery novels, she would have won the Booker long ago
- Books of the Year, Evening Standard
Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world
- Ian Rankin
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.
Harrogate Crime Festival, Raglan House, Raglan Street, Harrogate,
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