The Girl Next Door : A Novel (Paperback)

from bookswoman

This is the first book by Ruth Rendell and I don't know that it was the best choice. I've heard rave reviews on her writing but this book mostly left me puzzled. The writing is well done, the characters are great and I didn't mind spending time with most of them but the story didn't feel like a m...

from ChristineEllei

In the summer of 1944 there is not much for a group of young people to do in the English countryside until one day they discover a tunnel that becomes their secret meeting place. It's a place to wile away some time; play games on make shift tables by the light of candle, tell stories, have makesh...

from lycomayflower

What a thunderous collection of appalling humans this was. The story starts with a cold, calculating young husband killing his wife and her lover, cutting off their hands, hiding them in a biscuit tin, and depositing the tin in an abandoned house foundation. We then jump forward six decades to a ...

from RidgewayGirl

This is Ruth Rendell's final novel, and it's better than her previous few. Which is not to elevate it to the level of her best work, but it was, at least, not bad. The Girl Next Door begins with the discovery of a tin box containing two hands, found by construction workers underneath an old house...

from judithrs

The Girl Next Door. Ruth Rendell. 2014. My homage to the author who died in May. I cannot remember if I downloaded this before or after her death. Rendell is mentioned a long with Josephine Tey and P. D. James as a successor to Agatha Christie. I don't remember reading any of her Wexford books, b...