num_pages: 192
description: She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . .In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known how to talk to women. And his loneliness has perverted his desire for love and respect into a carefully controlled penchant for violence. One floor below him, a scholar finishing his thesis on psychopathic personalities is about to stumble—quite literally—upon one of Arthur's many secrets. Haunting and intelligent, A Demon in My View shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds—one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.
language: English
title: A Demon in My View
titlecomplete: A Demon in My View
genres: Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Horror, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 2174
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: CWA Gold Dagger
publisher: Bantam Books