Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

출생 : 1930-02-17, South Woodford, Essex, England, UK

사망 : 2015-05-02

약력

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.

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Ruth Rendell

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Valentin Valentin
Novel
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
나의 사적인 여자친구
Novel
클레어는 어렸을 때부터 모든 것을 공유하며 자랐던 절친 로라가 죽은 후 깊은 상심에 빠져 있다. 로라의 아이와 그녀의 남편을 돌보며 슬픔에서 벗어나려 하지만 그마저도 쉽지 않다. 그러던 어느 날, 클레어는 낯선 여자에게서 죽은 친구를 느끼게 되는데…
13 Steps Down
Novel
The Bridesmaid
Novel
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Novel
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
No Night Is Too Long
Novel
A chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets a handsome young university student on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder.
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
Novel
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
라이브 플래쉬
Novel
교도소에 수감 중인 빅토르(리베르토 리발)는 우연히 TV를 보다, 농구 스타이자 자신이 사랑한 엘레나(프란세스카 네리)의 남편이 되어있는 다비드(하비에르 바르뎀)를 보고 분노한다. 출소 후, 빅토르는 엘레나가 일하는 아동보호소에서 자원봉사 활동을 하며 그녀와 가까워질 기회를 노린다. 이 사실을 알게 된 다비드는 빅토르를 찾아가는데…
의식
Novel
조용하고 내성적인 성격의 소피는 상류층인 릴리브르씨 가족을 위해 일하는 가정부다. 이 집의 무능력한 부부와 버릇없는 두 아이를 위해 매일 ‘의식’과 같이 식사를 준비하고 청소를 하며 집안을 돌본다. 그런데 그녀는 자신이 글을 읽지 못한다는 사실을 숨기고 있다. 소피는 정열적이며 세상 물정에 밝은 우체국 직원 잔느와 친구가 되는데, 그녀를 위해 쇼핑 리스트를 읽어주기도 하고 릴리브르 가족에 대한 온갖 이야기들을 들려주기도 한다. 잔느가 자신의 우편물을 훔쳐본다고 의심해 오던 릴리브르씨는, 소피에게 잔느가 4살짜리 소녀에 대한 살인혐의를 받은 적 있으며 나중에 방면되었다는 사실을 얘기해준다. 그렇게 서로의 불신이 쌓여갈 무렵 소피가 글을 읽지 못한다는 사실이 발각되고 항상 부르주아 가족으로부터 무시당한다고 생각했던 소피와 잔느의 분노가 폭발하게 된다.
A Dark Adapted Eye
Novel
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder, obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of secrecy and jealousy that leads to disaster.
A Fatal Inversion
Novel
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
From Doon with Death
Novel
Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?
Tree of Hands
Novel
A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.
An Affair in Mind
Writer
A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The writer doesn't go through with it and they break off. However, she's not done with him yet.
Diary of the Dead
Novel
An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a maze of deception.