Book description
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of
worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small
fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in
need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of
his own.
Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin's ideas
about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some
unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become
fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other. In the
Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no
good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion.
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.
