Books like Tigerlily's orchids by Ruth Rendell

When a harmless balloon mishap in the Chilterns sparks an obsessive affair, scientist Joe Rose faces a terrifying obsession that endangers his rational life, his wife Clarissa, and pushes him toward violence.

When a chance meeting at a Long Island bookshop leads Laurel to her estranged father, she must navigate family secrets, an unlikely partnership with Marcus O’Neill, and a stormy Florida Keys adventure filled with intrigue, romance, and danger.

A thrilling romance with unexpected twists set in Cancun.

300 pages ; 21 cm

If a middle‑aged woman is hanged for murder, who would have known her tragic past? Ruth Rendell’s Barbara Vine novel dissects a family’s buried secrets, exploring the slow descent into violence and control.

When the Coverdale family is killed in a brutal, televised act on Valentine’s Day, Detective Vetch must unravel the motives behind the housekeeper’s shocking method and the hidden key to a long‑guarded family secret.

In Uncle Silas, a 17‑year‑old orphan is thrust into a web of family betrayal when her guardian plans to murder her for her fortune.

Television scriptwriter Sidney Bartleby, who writes murder mysteries, fantasizes about killing his wife Alicia for inspiration. When she leaves on an extended holiday, he must confront the possibility that his dark day‑dream could become reality.

Chief Inspector Wexford investigates a series of teenage girls’ murders in the quiet streets of Kingsmarkham, where a concrete block from a bridge sets a deadly chain in motion.

A psychological thriller that explores how damaged children confront their pasts.

Psychologist Kit Quinn, after a brutal attack, is drawn into a series of murders that force her to confront her deepest fears while unraveling a sinister conspiracy.

A seasoned governess turned spy must protect the children of a high‑ranking French officer while uncovering a Royalist conspiracy during the Napoleonic era.

Ruth Rendell’s thriller follows a young woman confronting her violent mother, where a child’s death sparks deception, kidnapping and murder in a tangled family drama.

A chilling psychological thriller about two women caught in the grip of a series of gruesome murders in Yorkshire.

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world." When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand.In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise.As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.From the Hardcover edition.

A widowed rector in rural Wiltshire investigates the violent death of a bishop, uncovering intrigue, danger, and a surprising connection to his own life.

A ten‑year‑old crime is revisited, unraveling a tightly plotted mystery that exemplifies Ruth Rendell’s skillful storytelling.