Ruth Rendell
Road Rage
The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And much of them were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through.
While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest. Some of them may have been desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them. One hostage was Wexford’s wife, Dora.
Now, combining high technology with his extraordinary detecting skills, Wexford and his team race to find the whereabouts of the kidnappers. Because someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford’s personal path to hell.
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A judgement in stone
On Valentine’s Day, four members of the Coverdale family–George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles–were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine’s Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell’s finest psychological thrillers.
Adam Runaway
En Anglais – « It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk. » « As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often. » « While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong! » « Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
Rottweiler
La première fille avait une morsure dans le cou. Selon la police, les analyses ADN désignaient son fiancé. Qu’importe ! La presse à sensation s’était tout de suite emparée de l’histoire : elle avait baptisé le tueur le Rottweiler, et le surnom lui était resté. Le dernier corps est découvert tout près du magasin d’antiquités d’Inez Ferry, dans le quartier de Marylebone, à Londres. Depuis la mort de son mari, Inez complète son modeste revenu en acceptant des locataires au-dessus de la boutique. Les activités obsessionnelles et imprévisibles du Rottweiler sèment la suspicion au sein de cette petite communauté disparate : un maniaque, un assassin se cache parmi eux.
L’arbre à fièvre
L’arbre à fièvre pousse où sévit la malaria : c’est un symptôme, un avertissement, d’où sa présence au seuil de ces onze récits, dont chacun se propose de nous emmener aux racines du crime. On ne tue pas seulement par vengeance, par haine, par amour. Ici l’égoïsme, le confort, l’habitude, le simple agacement sont aussi des mobiles du crime. Tricia est si sotte que nous avons envie d’absoudre Ford qui complote sa mort. Et que reprocher à celui qui s’amuse à effrayer les femmes dans les rues désertes, ce qui fait que l’une d’elles, pour lui échapper, monte dans une voiture…dont le conducteur l’étranglera ?