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1) The vault
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A chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, brings Wexford out of retirement. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an advisor on a difficult case.
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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives.
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Sarah Hussain was not popular in the community of Kingsmarkham. Born of mixed parents, she was also the Reverend of St Peter's church. But it came as a profound shock to everyone when she was found strangled in the vicarage. In his retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, but when his old friend Mike Burden
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Chief Inspector Wexford volume 21
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Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud.
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2017
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New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts...
12) Live flesh
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Victor believes that the ten years in prison were a mistake and that he had never intended to harm anyone. Now, out of prison, he still isn't free. He goes back to his past and so begins a new chain of accidents and tragic mistakes.
13) Dark corners
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2015
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When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of
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C. I. Wexford volume 7
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One February afternoon, Stella Rivers disappeared & was never seen again. Months later, another child vanishes. Then the letters begin. Evil, threatening letters. Suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy.
16) Going wrong.
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Guy believes Leonora loves him just as she did when she was a a young girl. His obsession with her has grown with the passing years, and he has always believed she would come back to him. However, even when Leonora tells him it cannot be like that, he cannot accept the truth, and a murderous madness begins to take over him.
17) 13 steps down
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Arrow
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2012
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Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, loner Mix Cellini is obsessed with the John Christie murders and with a beautiful model who lives nearby. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2004
18) A sleeping life
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Wexford volume 11
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2010
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The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them D.I. Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, but that must have been imagination. However, he didn't have much more to go on.