BRAND NEW: The Bridesmaid - Ruth Rendell (9379)

Philip hated violence in any form. He loved beautiful things - like Flora, the stone statue in his mother's garden and Senta, his sister's bridesmaid. White-skinned, delicate Senta of the silver hair, who looked just like Flora. The passionate, fascinating Senta who begged Philip to prove his love for her by killing someone ...

Press Reviews

'A young man refurbishes suburban homes, lives with his mother and sister, becomes obsessed with a garden nymph statue and then dangerously infatuated with its living lookalike. This relationship is emotional, erotic and vampiric, witth him as the victim' - Guardian

'Every sentence is appallingly, shockingly convincing ... a memorably harrowing journey through sick and weak minds, written with a skill that makes it relentlessly gripping' - The Times

'To read her at her best - and The Bridesmaid is perhaps her best book - is like stepping on to a trundling country bus and feeling it turn into a roller coaster' - The Sunday Times

About the Author

Since her first novel, From Doon With Death, published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' 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, 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 Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution 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.