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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife.
There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband.
The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives...
Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell. And Mr and Mrs Font, the worried parents, will have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son.
Darkly humorous, piercingly observant of human behaviour, Ruth Rendell has created here another compelling fable of our lives and crimes.
About the author
Ruth Rendell, auch unter dem Pseudonym Barbara Vine bekannt, ist mit ihren zahlreichen Romanen eine der ganz großen englischen Autorinnen. Dreimal schon erhielt sie den "Edgar-Allen-Poe-Preis" und zweimal den "Golden Dagger Award" für den besten Kriminalroman des Jahres. 1997 wurde sie mit dem Grand Masters Award der Crime Writers Association of America, dem renommiertesten Krimipreis überhaupt, ausgezeichnet und darüber hinaus von Königin Elizabeth in den Adelsstand erhoben. Ruth Rendell wurde 1930 in einem Londoner Vorort geboren. Sie arbeitete zunächst als Journalistin, bis sie sich 1964 ganz auf den Schriftstellerberuf konzentrierte. Ruth Rendell starb 85-Jährig am 2. Mai 2015.
Summary
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife.
There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband.
The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives...
Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell. And Mr and Mrs Font, the worried parents, will have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son.
Darkly humorous, piercingly observant of human behaviour, Ruth Rendell has created here another compelling fable of our lives and crimes.
Foreword
The new psychological thriller from the reigning Queen of British Crime
Report
"The sins and self-deprecations of the inhabitants of a mansion block in north-west London are skewered with great skill in a novel that incorporates adultery, dipsomania, theft, paedophilia, drugs and, inevitably, murder. A clever whodunit most notable for its naked misanthropy." Evening Standard
