Her prose style.has the disquieting intimacy of an alien touch in the dark.” Author: Marilyn Stasio Source: The New York Times Book Review James, been bringing new sophistication and psychological depth to the traditional English mystery.” Source: Washington Post “Rendell has for years, along with her friend P.D. “Unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time. "No one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, istability, and malignant coincidence." Author: Stephen King then, congratulations: Your reading life is about to get infinitely richer." Author: Jonathan Shapiro Source: Los Angeles Times “If you’re unfamiliar with Ruth Rendell, if you’ve somehow managed to miss her sixty or so books. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.
Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writers’ Association. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make-and the emotions behind them-remain as potent in late life as they were in youth. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?
As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. Throughout the summer of 1944-until one father forbids it-the subterranean space becomes their “secret garden,” where the friends play games and tell stories.
In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. In this psychologically explosive story from “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” ( People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends. INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS
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