The Girl Next Door: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK Sides

From crime star Ruth Rendell, a psychologically intriguing novel about a vintage murder that sends shockwaves across several astonishingly carnal and appetiteful older friends: “Refined, probing, and intelligent…never less than a satisfaction” (USA TODAY).

In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children locate a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For the summertime of 1944, the subterranean space becomes about The Girl Next Door: A Book their “secret garden,” where in fact the friends play games, tell their fortunes, and perform for every other.

Six decades afterwards, construction workers make a grisly discovery beneath a residence on the same property: a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the hands make national news, the close friends come together once again, to recall their way back when days for the detective. Then your police analysis sputters, as well as the threads keeping their friendship together start to unravel. Is the truth buried amid the tangled romantic relationships of these ageing men and women and their memories? Will it emerge before it’s as well late?

Stephen King says, “nobody surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to tales of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence.” In THE LADY Next Door-“yet another jewel” (The Washington Post)-Rendell brilliantly shows that the options people make, as well as the emotions behind them, remain while potent in later life because they had been in youth. “Rendell’s wit, often mordant, has never been sharper than when she skewers patronizing assumptions about older people” (Chicago Tribune).