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Stand-alone novels, novellas + short stories

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.

Ruth Rendell

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