Ruth Rendell Mysteries

- Season 11

(1998)

A successful businessman runs into his old girlfriend. Although she treats him politely, his rekindled feelings to her border on nothing less than obsession.

Guy's obsession with his old girlfriend Leonora and becomes convinced that someone close to her is poisoning her against him.

Invited to Leonora and William's for dinner, Guy goes mad when he learns that they will be moving to Manchester and attacks William. He's subsequently surprised when Leonora asks him to spend a Saturday with her but is aghast when owing to a mis-communication, his friend Danny tells him of the hit he has arranged on Rachel. When Leonora fails to appear for their lunch on Saturday, he realizes it was all a ploy. Drifting in and pout of fantasy, he decides to seek a final revenge.

A young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest.

Wexford's wife Dora is released by the terrorists, but the body of young Roxanne is found dead, and young Ryan has apparently defected to the terrorists.

Prim businesswoman Della Galway has a compulsive penchant for double-locking doors but her new roommate is careless about security.

A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain and makes many astute observations about life there.

Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.

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Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.