Stand-alone novels, novellas + short stories
Crimes are more often committed out of fear, not out of wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives, and they do what they do because they are driven by their fears or by their feelings of being trapped by the pressures of society.
2017
- A Spot of Folly
- A short story collection
2015
- Dark Corners
- A stand-alone novel
2014
- The Girl Next Door
- A stand-alone novel
2013
- Archie and Archie
- A children's book
2012
- The Saint Zita Society
- A stand-alone novel
2010
- Tigerlily's Orchids
- A stand-alone novel
2009
- Midsummer Nights
- A short story collection
2008
- Portobello
- A stand-alone novel
2006
- The Thief
- A stand-alone novella
- The Water's Lovely
- A stand-alone novel
2004
- Thirteen Steps Down
- A stand-alone novel
2003
- The Rottweiler
- A stand-alone novel
2001
- Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
- A stand-alone novel
2000
- Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories
- A short story collection
1998
- A Sight for Sore Eyes
- A standalone novel
1996
- The Keys to the Street
- A stand-alone novel
1995
- Blood Lines
- A short story collection
1993
- The Crocodile Bird
- A stand-alone novel
1991
- The Copper Peacock
- A short story collection
1990
- Going Wrong
- A stand-alone novel
1989
- The Bridesmaid
- A stand-alone novel
1987
- Talking to Strange Men
- A stand-alone novel
- Heartstones
- A stand-alone novella
1986
- Live Flesh
- A stand-alone novel
1985
- The New Girlfriend and Other Stories
- A short story collection
1984
- The Tree of Hands
- A stand-alone novel
- The Killing Doll
- A stand-alone novel
1982
- The Fever Tree and Other Stories
- A short story collection
- Master of the Moor
- A stand-alone novel
1980
- The Lake of Darkness
- A stand-alone novel
1979
- Make Death Love Me
- A Ruth Rendell stand-alone novel
1977
- A Judgement in Stone
- A stand-alone novel
1976
- The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories
- A short story collection
- A Demon in My View
- A stand-alone novel
1974
- The Face of Trespass
- A stand-alone novel
1971
- One Across, Two Down
- A stand-alone novel
1968
- The Secret House of Death
- A stand-alone novel
1966
- Vanity Dies Hard
- A stand-alone novel
1965
- To Fear a Painted Devil
- A stand-alone novel