Book description
In this collection of eleven stories, murder is committed for reasons
of fear, jealously, cupidity, and out of sheer compulsion, while the
settings include an African game park, a sinister ruined cemetery, an
East Anglian seaside resort, and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest.
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers'
Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with
A Demon in My View
; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the
best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for
Live Flesh
in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times
Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier
Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a
Life Peer.
