Ruth Rendell

From Doon with Death Ruth Rendell

Love and death are the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a "good" woman--religious, old-fashioned and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death--passionate, violent and unfathomable.