- Title:
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The Girl Next Door
- Written by:
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Ruth Rendell
- Read by:
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Ric Jerrom
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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9 hours 58 minutes
- Published:
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August 14 2014
- Available Date:
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August 14 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486223510
- Genres:
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Fiction; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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'Ruth Rendell is unequivocally the most brilliant mystery writer of our time. She magnificently triumphs in a style that is uniquely hers.'
Patricia Cornwell, New York Times bestselling author
In this dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell, the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of longtime friends.
In the waning months of the Second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighbourhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 – until one father forbids it – the subterranean space becomes their 'secret garden', where the friends play games and tell stories.
Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?
This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared.
In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make – and the emotions behind them – remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.
'Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world.'
Ian Rankin, bestselling author of Knots and Crosses
'Ruth Rendell has raised the game of the crime novel in this country through the sheer quality of her writing.'
Peter James, author of Left You Dead