{"product_id":"the-girl-next-door-9781476784342","title":"The Girl Next Door","description":"\u003cb\u003eINCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, \u003ci\u003eDARK CORNERS\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom crime legend Ruth Rendell, a psychologically intriguing novel about an old murder that sends shockwaves across a group of astonishingly carnal and appetiteful elderly friends: \"Refined, probing, and intelligent...never less than a pleasure\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover a tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. For that summer of 1944, the subterranean space becomes their \"secret garden,\" where the friends play games, tell their fortunes, and perform for each other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSix decades later, construction workers make a grisly discovery beneath a house on the same land: a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the hands make national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their long ago days for a detective. Then the police investigation sputters, and the threads holding their friendship together begin to unravel. Is the truth buried amid the tangled relationships of these aging men and women and their memories? Will it emerge before it's too late? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStephen King says, \"no one surpasses Ruth Rendell when it comes to stories of obsession, instability, and malignant coincidence.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Next Door\u003c\/i\u003e--\"yet another gem\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)--Rendell brilliantly shows that the choices people make, and the emotions behind them, remain as potent in late life as they were in youth. \"Rendell's wit, always mordant, has never been sharper than when she skewers patronizing assumptions about the elderly\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476784342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Ruth Rendell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095645950133,"sku":"9781476784342","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bcc4f385-75e8-42c6-880e-bc0cf36f1a80.jpg?v=1651588648","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-girl-next-door-9781476784342","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}