Description
A lonely middle-aged woman is found stabbed to death along a path between a bus stop and her father’s home, and the discovery is made by a small boy who will never forget what he has seen. As the investigation unfolds, Ruth Rendell peels back the surface of ordinary lives to reveal a carefully maintained web of lies—one that seems to have been constructed to keep a troubled soul from being exposed. With her signature psychological acuity and razor-sharp attention to motive, Rendell turns the mystery into a study of secrecy, loneliness, and the ways people rewrite reality to survive. In this tense, character-driven thriller, every clue raises uncomfortable questions about what we hide, what we inherit, and what finally breaks.
Available Editions
paperback
G. K. Hall
Published Jan 1, 1979
344 pages
ISBN: 9780816167111
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Details
First Published
1978
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell.