A Spot of Folly
In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables turned. A beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder. A compulsive liar acts on impulse, only to be lead inexorably to disaster. And a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife's kidnapping than meets the eye. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a Lead quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time
