Thirteen Steps Down

by Ruth Rendell
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Another cracking psychological novel from Ruth Rendell - out now in paperback!

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A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive - living her life through her library of books. Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes.

Editorial Reviews

"Ruth Rendell is back to her creepy best." - Daily Mail

"Rendell's eerie capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish." - The Times

"It's impossible to read the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement." - Sunday Times

"One of her darkest and best." - Literary Review

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