In her twenty-second book featuring Inspector Wexford, the diligent detective debuted in 1964Â's From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell delivers a brilliant and fascinating tale that revolves around a man Wexford suspects to be a serial ...

The first case for DCI Reg Wexford. When Margaret Parsons disappears, it's assumed that she's run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found and a startling discovery is made when Mr. Parsons lets the police into...

Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of taking a second wife, 50 years his junior. On the same cold winter's day, he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue's death came ...

Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn't know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as though her beauty had been plundered. But...

Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case—it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own. There had been no doubts about the case, until now. Someone wants the case reopened, and they want Wexford proved wrong.

With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitt...

From highly acclaimed mystery author Ruth Rendell comes a story of obsession, superstition, and long pent-up violence.Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an S rather than a C) is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt...

Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime, nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and a name. A pattern soon emerged to the investigation. Not only had Anita been wealthy and flighty, she had been thoroughly imm...

The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them DI Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must have been his imagination. However, he didn't have much more to...

There are only two things in life that interest Stanley: solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law's money. For 20 years, the puzzles have been his only pleasure, the money his only dream. It has never occu...

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain ent...

For awhile, the rock festival at "Sundays" went well. The sun shone, the bands played, and everyone - except a few angry neighbors—seemed to enjoy themselves. Then the weather changed. And in a nearby quarry, two lovers found a body...

The latest victim in a series of apparently motiveless murders is found near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. Someone saw a shadowy figure running away, but the only other clues are that the murderer usually strangles his vict...

There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: that an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he...