Ruth Rendell
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Description
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
Author
Description
When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Francois Ozon's humorous psychological drama The New Girlfriend stars Anais Demoustier as Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, passes away, leaving behind a husband named David (Romain Duris) and a newborn baby. One day Claire drops by David's house unexpectedly, and finds him feeding his baby with a bottle while dressed in his dead wife's clothes. He explains that Lea was aware of his predilection, and his relief that...