Stranded

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Ruth Rendell

A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fianc??s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from suicide--only to fall victim to an unfathomable form of possessiveness?. In the eleven tales gathered in The Fallen Curtain, Ruth Rendell lays bare the twisted inner workings of the unbalanced mind.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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John Williams

Collected here are John Williams' short stories and novels, set in a Cardiff where buildings are demolished, prostitutes roam the streets and bars, men embrace their midlife crises from the bottom of a bottle and romance is tainted.

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Alexandra Frye

As a good-bye to the '80s mania for the high-stakes Big Deal, A Perfect Wife and Mother is a classic American nightmare of people who seem to have everything until the thing that matters most is taken away.

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Ruth Rendell

The clumsy efforts of two amateur bank robbers give bank manager Alan Groombridge a chance to realize his dreams of trading a dull life for passion and adventure, but his conscience soon gets in the way