INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction's reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London's Notting Hill.

Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction -- and his own good intentions -- 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 with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life -- and the life of his trusting fiancée -- the consequences will change them all.

Portobello is a wonderfully complex tour de force featuring a dazzling depiction of one of London's most intriguing neighborhoods -- and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer.

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• Literature & FictionGenre FictionPsychological
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• Publication Date: September 7, 2010
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 308 Pages
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