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'Bizarre, isn't it? The teenagers are fifteen and thirteen, the sitter's in her thirties, they can all swim and the house is miles above the floods'. As Burden introduces the case to Wexford with these words, the Subaqua Task Force looks in vain for drowned bodies. Yet their mother is sure her children are dead. Another in the extremely popular Inspector Wexford series.

Rendell’s much-loved detective, Chief Inspector Wexford is respected and successful in his field. In this novel however, his old-fashioned policing methods come under scrutiny from a member of the press, determined to show him up as a has-been and a dinosaur in an age of new technology and whiz-bang policing techniques.

Victor's old life centred around drugs, women and violence. When, after spending ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, he finds himself released into a strange new world, he gets the chance to make a new, better, life for himself. But when he meets David, the policeman he shot all those years ago, and David's beautiful girlfriend Clare, suddenly Victor's new life starts to look an awful lot like the old one...

Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar used Rendell's novel as the basis for what he has called a 'completely independent' interpretation.

The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello...Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But, he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene was 50, with prematurely white hair. He was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he had cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and had given up cigarettes. Which was just as well, considering he was going out with a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there was something he didn't want her to know about...On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. He picked it up. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamppost near his house: 'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between 80 and 160 pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.' This note would link the lives of a number of very different people - each with their obsessions, problems and dreams and despairs. And through it all the hectic life of Portobello would bustle on.

Rendell's psychological thriller, follows Teddy Brex, a handsome young autistic man who comes to the aid of Francine Hill, a beautiful young woman traumatised by the murder of her mother. Francine, who is being stifled by the overprotectiveness of an obsessive stepmother, welcomes his help. But it might not be quite the sort of assistance she needs - for it turns out Teddy has already committed two murders himself...

A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwedolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.