{"product_id":"9780099502708_362","title":"Live Flesh by Rendell, Ruth | Subject:Crime, Thriller \u0026 Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description Victor Jenner is a sociopath. After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to adjust to civilian life, but at least there's one blessing - he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot, and David's beautiful girlfriend, Clare. And suddenly Victor's new life is starting to look an awful lot like the old one. Review Powerfully claustrophobic ?GuardianRuth Rendell shows an unparalleled understanding of human evil. -- John Mortimer ?Sunday TimesCompelling, disturbing and masterfully written. ?The TimesRendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head ?Maeve BinchyThere are quite a few Ruth Rendells: the doyenne of the traditional English detective novel; the queen of the psychological thriller; the celebrated author of the literary thriller ?Mail on Sunday From the Inside Flap Why did he do it? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily married parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make motiveless attacks on women? Victor didn't know. But Victor did know the years he had spent in prison had been a mistake. He had never intended to harm anyone. Now, out of prison, Victor still is not free. The past holds him so he can't go forward. So Victor goes back and begins a chain of accidents, a new string of tragic mistakes. About the Author Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers? Association Gold Dagger for 1976?s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers? Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Used Good | Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Used Good","offer_id":42955973820662,"sku":"9780099502708_R1_W4_A1","price":99.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/413NRVQG7-L.jpg?v=1648487827","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/9780099502708_362","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}