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The Girl Next Door Audiobook Summary

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

From crime legend Ruth Rendell, a psychologically intriguing novel about an old murder that sends shockwaves across a group of astonishingly carnal and appetiteful elderly friends: “Refined, probing, and intelligent…never less than a pleasure” (USA TODAY).


In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For that summer of 1944, the subterranean space becomes their “secret garden,” where the friends play games, tell their fortunes, and perform for each other.

Six decades later, construction workers make a grisly discovery beneath a house on the same land: a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the hands make national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their long ago days for a detective. Then the police investigation sputters, and the threads holding their friendship together begin to unravel. Is the truth buried amid the tangled relationships of these aging men and women and their memories? Will it emerge before it’s too late?

Stephen King says, “no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence.” In The Girl Next Door–“yet another gem” (The Washington Post)–Rendell brilliantly shows that the choices people make, and the emotions behind them, remain as potent in late life as they were in youth. “Rendell’s wit, always mordant, has never been sharper than when she skewers patronizing assumptions about the elderly” (Chicago Tribune).

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The Girl Next Door Audiobook Narrator

Ric Jerrom is the narrator of The Girl Next Door audiobook that was written by Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

About the Author(s) of The Girl Next Door

Ruth Rendell is the author of The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door Full Details

Narrator Ric Jerrom
Length 9 hours 58 minutes
Author Ruth Rendell
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date March 28, 2024
ISBN 9781442375192

Subjects

The publisher of the The Girl Next Door is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective

Additional info

The publisher of the The Girl Next Door is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442375192.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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