Collected short stories

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Summary: wonderful way to get started on Rendell
Review: Fabulous collection of the little gems that make up the larger jewels that are Ruth Rendell. I don't know why her books are not more well know in the US, she is so far superior to Grishom and his like. Her character protrayals are insightful, deep and rich portraits of people like us, the readers, caught up in a world they can barely understand at times and surrounded by people they know even less, including themselves. But Ruth Rendell knows the world we live in and she knows the people in it. You will find suspense, mystery, maliciousness, cruel little twists of fate, and love and generosity inside even the most terrible monsters in all her stories. They are riviting and if you read this book like her novels you won't be able to stop turning the pages.