the secret house of death Author:ruth rendell When Louise North is found shot dead, sprawled under the body of the equally dead man whom all Orchard Drive knew to be her lover, it looked like a classic lover's suicide pact. Certainly, Louise's husband Bob displayed the grief and anger appropriate to such a g situation. But Bob's protestations of sorrow and the inquest's verdict cloaked a ... more »hideous truth-a truth that went beyond suicide and even beyond police suspicions of a crime of passion....« less