The Keys to the Street Author:Ruth Rendell Lush green by day, darkly sinister by night, Regent's Park hosts an underworld of drug ushers and thugs, of London's homeless and the unseen killer who is impaling them, one by one, on the ornate railings that encircle the park. — Theirs is a world light years away from Mary Jago's elegant new home and museum job across the park. Mary, in an unch... more »aracteristic act of self-assertion, has left her abusive boyfriend and, in an act of humanity, has donated her bone marrow to a stranger. She then meets the fragile young man whose life she saved--Leo, flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone, a twin soul--and becomes deeply involved with him.
But Mary's boldness has its price. Among the park's shattered hopes and new dreams, something dark and deadly waits for her...eager to rob her of something more precious than life.« less
Ruth Rendell is on of my favorite mystery authors. This book was a sort of combo romance/mystery. I really liked it. It's not deep or anything but still enjoyable.
Some writers are fantastic at building characters including even their dreams. Others are masters of plot including mysteries and suspense. Still others have laconic but powerful descriptive skills. Rendell is all of these, a writer who makes you pay attention and makes you think and keep track of the hints she drops throughout. She pulls you in and you will have no clue about the ending until the end and then it will make sense. She is a gem of writers.