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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 lifeโs fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendellโโone of the most remarkable novelists of her generationโ (People)โwriting 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 fatherโs bizarre collection of homeopathic โcuresโ 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 Carlโs space. Ingeniously weaving together two storylines that finally merge in one shocking turn, Ruth Rendell describes one manโs spiral into darknessโand murderโas he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape.
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