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Scribner
November 2015
On Sale: October 27, 2015
Featuring: Carl Martin; Dermot McKinnon
ISBN: 1501119427
EAN: 9781501119422
Kindle: B00UDCHXHS
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A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both
accidental and opportunistic, and of one life’s fateful
unraveling from Ruth Rendell—“one of the most remarkable
novelists of her generation” (People)—writing at her most
acute and mesmerizing. When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an
increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs
cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to
the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was
colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping
his father’s bizarre collection of homeopathic “cures” that
he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of
controversial diet pills. Mistake number three was selling
fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Dermot seizes a nefarious opportunity and begins to
blackmail Carl, refusing to pay rent, and creepily invading
Carl’s space. Ingeniously weaving together two storylines
that finally merge in one shocking turn, Ruth Rendell
describes one man’s spiral into darkness—and murder—as he
falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape.
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