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The girl next door / Ruth Rendell.
Sixty years after children play in a tunnel for a summer, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, drawing the friends back together as they recall those days for the investigating detective.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385683333 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 282 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2014.
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| Subject: | Memory in old age > England > Fiction. Friendship > England > Fiction. England > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Rende | 31681002519759 | FICTION | Available | - |
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The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell.
When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past.
'For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. But once it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn't stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita's narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man's brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.'
Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their secret place.
Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved on or disappeared.
Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret, buried a lifetime ago, and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must investigate a possible case of murder.
In all her novels, Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche. The interconnecting tunnels of Loughton in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR lead to no single destination. But the relationships formed there, the incidents that occurred, exert a profound influence -- not only on the survivors but in unearthing the true nature of the mysterious past.
