From highly acclaimed mystery author Ruth Rendell comes a story of obsession, superstition, and long pent-up violence.Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an S rather than a C) is superstitious about the number 13 and has always felt...

Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime, nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and a name. A pattern soon emerged to the investigation. Not only had Anita been wealthy and flighty, she had been thoroughly imm...