Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Husband to a woman he didn't like, father of two children he had never wanted, and manager ofa tiny branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank, Alan was doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that saved him was that one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom - one year in which to live a different sort of life.

But one day the bank was robbed, the manager and cashier disappeared and what was once a place of dull and dreary repetition became one caught in a brutal, chilling nightmare that might never, never end...

"A fine novel of suspense' Financial Times

Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me. London: Hutchinson, 1997, ISBN: 0091366305, 215 p., £16.99

Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979. Alan Groombridge is married to a woman he doesn't like, is a bank manager of a tiny branch, and is doomed to a life of boredom and tedious routine. All that saves him is a fantasy of stealing enough of the bank's money for just one year of freedom.

Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me. Arrow, ISBN: 0099223309 (August, 1995), 215 p., £5.99.

Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me (UK 1995)

From the Publisher:
'Britain's new Queen of Crime' -- Daily Mirror
Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Alan Groombridge ate his midday sandwiches while counting out £3,000 to himself. It was his secret fantasy - and a very dangerous game for a man bored with the routine of life as a bank manager. But the money was always returned to the vaults.

That is, until the day the Anglian-Victoria bank was robbed and both manager and cashier disappeared. Groombridge's fantasies had at last become reality - in a web of deceit and daydreams that could only culminate in horror.

'Compulsive reading' -- Oxford Mail
'A fine novel of suspense' -- Financial Times

Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me. London: Arrow, 1980, ISBN: 0099223309, 215 p., 95p.