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Make Death Love Me
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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407070827
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Make Death Love Me

a nightmarish mystery of desire and deceit from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell

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1 July 2010
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7 July 2011
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6 Dec 1994
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An early mystery from Ruth Rendell, the world's greatest living crime writer and author of bestselling psychological thrillers including Thirteen Steps Down and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. Shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel in 1980.

The potent and murky impulses of desire, greed, obsession and fear combine with deadly results in this compelling psychological thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Perfect for readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon.

'A fine novel of suspense' -- Financial Times
'Rendell's psychological insights are so absorbing, it's easy to forget what a superb plotter she is' -- The Times
'Ruth Rendell's books are not only whodunits but whydunits, uncovering the motive roots of murder' -- Mail on Sunday
'Pretty much perfect' -- ***** Reader review
'Had me glued from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review
'Loved this book, a real page turner with a really good end!' -- ***** Reader review
'A superb work which, as always, keeps you gripped from beginning to end!!' -- ***** Reader review
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Alan Groombridge is trapped. Husband to a woman he doesn't like, father to two children he never wanted, and manager of a tiny branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank, he is doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine.

All that keeps him afloat is his one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow him just one year of freedom - one year in which to live a different sort of life.

But one day the bank is robbed, the manager and cashier disappear and what was once a place of dull and dreary repetition becomes the scene of a brutal, chilling nightmare that might never end...
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407070827
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
Categories:

About the author

Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.

portrait photo of Ruth Rendell

Also by Ruth Rendell

From Doon With Death
Not in the Flesh
Road Rage
Tigerlily's Orchids
The Vault
The Bridesmaid
The Saint Zita Society
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Praise for Make Death Love Me

A fine novel of suspense

Financial Times

Rendell’s psychological insights are so absorbing, it’s easy to forget what a superb plotter she is

The Times

Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear

Sunday Times

Ruth Rendell is not only the finest crime novelist there is, but one of the finest novelists writing in the English language

Scotsman

Ruth Rendell's books are not only whodunits but whydunits, uncovering the motive roots of murder

Mail on Sunday

The mistress of mystery

Daily Mirror