Gemma Whelan

'This is the one I?ve been waiting for. And it?s a masterpiece of suspense. I quite literally couldn?t put it down - even when I was supposed to be doing other things . . .' - Barbara Erskine, author of The Dream Weavers Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns with a thrilling new novel: a Roy Grace story told from a new perspective. Some will know how it begins . . . My name is Sandy. My husband...

An imposing, isolated hotel - high up in the Swiss Alps - is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned...

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...