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Synopsis

'A top-notch thriller that will, I promise, have you nibbling your nails' - Daily Mail

In traditional fairytales the handsome prince rescues the beautiful princess from her wicked stepmother, and the couple live happily ever after.

But in Ruth Rendell's dark and damaged contemporary universe, innocent dreams can turn into the most terrible nightmares.

Teddy Brex emerges from a loveless, isolated childhood as a handsome but autistic young man. Francine Hill, traumatised by the murder of her mother, grows into a beautfiul young woman, who must endure the overprotectiveness of an increasingly obsessive stepmother.

Teddy Brex does ride to her rescue, but he is a man who has already committed two murders.

Press Reviews

'Rendell weaves the interlocking desires into a frightening tapestry of warped minds... A tale as chilling as any Rendell has written to date' - Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Masterfully spooky. Don't read this alone' - Red

About the Author

Since her first novel, From Doon with Death, published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon In My View, and the Arts Council National Book Award, genre fiction, for The Lake of Darkness in 1980.

In 1985 Ruth Rendell received the Silver Dagger for The Tree of Hands, and in 1987, writing as Barbara Vine, won her third Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for A Dark-Adapted Eye.

She won the Gold Dagger for Live Flesh in 1986, for King Solomon's Carpet in 1991 and, as Barbara Vine, a Gold Dagger in 1987 for A Fatal Inversion.

Ruth Rendell won the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990, and in 1991 she was awarded the Crime Writer's Association Carieter Diamond Dagger for outstanding contributions to the genre. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 was made a Life Peer.

Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and are also published to great acclaim in the United States.

Ruth Rendell has a son and two grandsons, and lives in London.