Portobello (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439148518)

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fiction's reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of London's Notting Hill.

Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction--and his own good intentions--Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fianc馥--the consequences will change them all.

Portobello is a wonderfully complex tour de force featuring a dazzling depiction of one of London's most intriguing neighborhoods--and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer.

Author: Ruth Rendell
ISBN-10: 1439148511
ISBN-13: 9781439148518
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2010
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.56w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2010 pg. 60
Booklist 05/01/2010 pg. 40
Library Journal 07/01/2010 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 07/26/2010
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2010
Romantic Times 09/01/2010 pg. 82 - Very Good
New York Times Book Review 10/03/2010 pg. 34