Book description
In 'Computer Seance', Sophia is credited with the 'spiritualist
renaissance' in London, conducting séances for the bereaved residents
of West London. So she is not at all surprised to meet her dead
brother at a bus stop. She has, after all, encountered other deceased
family members before. Only this time the encounter is more
disturbingly real.
In 'Fair Exchange' a meeting of two old acquaintances leads to the
shocking revelation of a mutual friend's death. What unfolds is a
tragic story of one life being sacrificed for another.
Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were
previously published in Piranha To Scurfy, a collection of
psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.
Ruth Rendell is the Queen of British crime writing. The author
of over 50 novels, she has won many significant crime fiction awards.
Her first novel, From Doon With Death, appeared in 1964, and
since then her reputation and readership have grown steadily with each
new book.
She has received major awards for her work; three Edgars from the
Mystery Writers of America; the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for
1976's best crime novel, A Demon in My View; the Arts Council
National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981 for The Lake of
Darkness; the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for 1986's best
crime book for Live Flesh; in 1987 the Crime Writer's Gold
Dagger Award for A Fatal Inversion and in 1991 the same award
for King Solomon's Carpet, both written under the pseudonym
Barbara Vine; the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990; and in
1991 the Crime Writer's Cartier Diamond Award for outstanding
contribution to the crime fiction genre.
Her books are translated into 21 languages. In 1996 she was awarded
the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
