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Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly (USA 2018) From the Publisher: These never-before-collected stories by Ruth Rendell -- the three-time Edgar Award-winning mistress of dark suspense and one of the most celebrated thriller writers of the twentieth century -- are "deliciously riveting, all the more so because Rendell's extraordinary ability to delve coolly and forensically into the dustiest nooks of the human psyche is amplified, not diminished, by the short story form... Often the reader is taken by the throat" (The Guardian). In "The Thief," a chance encounter with a stranger triggers the most destructive impulses in a vindictive pathological liar. A family shares an unnamable feeling of dread and a necessary denial to make it through the night in "Trebuchet." In the title story, a caddish boor can't help but boast of his infidelities. A historic murder weighs heavy on the unholy reputation of a quaint local landmark in "The Haunting of Shawley Rectory." And in "Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror," Rendell delivers a masterstroke of gasp-inducing brevity. Here are tales of mystery, madness, terrible crimes, and chilling perdition, all dispatched with a wit so knife-edged and deviousness, so impeccably cool that it's little wonder Joyce Carol Oates hails Ruth Rendell as "one of the finest practitioners of her craft." Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly. Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem. Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504054829 (November, 2018), 256 p., $17.99, eBook $10.99.
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Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly (UK 2018) From the Publisher: The stories are: Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror; A Spot of Folly; The Price of Joy; The Irony of Hate; Digby's Wives; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity; and Trebuchet. Introduction from Sophie Hannah. Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly. Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem. Profile Books, ISBN: 9781788160155 (October, 2018), 224 p., £8.99.
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Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly (UK 2017) From the Publisher: The stories are: Never Sleep in a Bed Facing a Mirror; A Spot of Folly; The Price of Joy; The Irony of Hate; Digby's Wives; The Haunting of Shawley Rectory; A Drop Too Much; The Thief; The Long Corridor of Time; In the Time of his Prosperity; and Trebuchet. Introduction from Sophie Hannah. Ruth Rendell: A Spot of Folly. Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem. Profile Books, ISBN: 9781788160148 (October, 2017), 212 p., £14.99, eBook £9.99.
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