num_pages: 272
description: “Crimes are more often committed out of fear than out of wickedness,” said author Ruth Rendell in a New York Times interview. “People live frightened, desperate lives…” Proof of this may be found in her new novel of chilling suspense, GOING WRONG.  Guy Curran is a prisoner of obsessive love. Leonora Chisholm holds the key to that obsession. Teenage sweethearts, she has since rejected Guy and his nouveau-riche milieu, choosing to follow her family's tradition of genteel near-poverty and liberal intellectualism.  Guy made a small fortune in drug-dealing and low-level gangstering, occupations disdained by the moral Chisholms. An interlude during which he supplied LSD to a mental patient—who later died under its influence—haunts him; he is convinced that his indiscretion became known to the Chisholms and led to Leonora's coolness.   Utilizing his knowledge of the London underworld, Guy, whose troubles with alcohol further weaken his slipping hold on reality, orders the murder of the Chisholm family member he deems most responsible for “turning Leonora against him.” Later, he reconsiders his choice of target, redirecting the killer. And once again…  Building an enveloping atmosphere of suspense and unease, a terrifying effect unequaled by any crime writer working today, Ruth Rendell goes for the jugular with her final revelation.
language: English
title: Going Wrong
titlecomplete: Going Wrong
genres: Fiction, Detective, Crime, Thriller, British Literature, Suspense, Novels, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 1376
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Mysterious Press