The Girl Next Door: A Novel

The Girl Next Door: A Novel

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELLâ€™S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

From crime legend Ruth Rendell, a psychologically intriguing novel about an old murder that sends shockwaves across a group of astonishingly carnal and appetiteful elderly friends: â€œRefined, probing, and intelligentâ€¦never less than a pleasureâ€ (USA TODAY).

In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For that summer of 1944, the subterranean space becomes their â€œsecret garden,â€ where the friends play games, tell their fortunes, and perform for each other.

Six decades later, construction workers make a grisly discovery beneath a house on the same land: a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the hands make national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their long ago days for a detective. Then the police investigation sputters, and the threads holding their friendship together begin to unravel. Is the truth buried amid the tangled relationships of these aging men and women and their memories? Will it emerge before itâ€™s too late?

Stephen King says, â€œno one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence.â€ In The Girl Next Doorâ€”â€œyet another gemâ€ (The Washington Post)â€”Rendell brilliantly shows that the choices people make, and the emotions behind them, remain as potent in late life as they were in youth. â€œRendellâ€™s wit, always mordant, has never been sharper than when she skewers patronizing assumptions about the elderlyâ€ (Chicago Tribune).
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781476784342
ReleaseDate 2015-08-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476784342

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781476784342
ReleaseDate	2015-08-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476784342

The Girl Next Door: A Novel

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