Piranha To Scurfy
A lonely man spends his days reading books purely for the pleasure of catching mistakes. He becomes so incensed by the carelessness of others he falls victim to his own sloppiness. Women gets a perfectly satisfying moment of revenge -sixty years after the crime was committed. An idyllic village in the English countryside offers newcomers a peculiar kind of hospitality, and exacts a terrible price on those who reject it. Combining the macabre imagination of Shirley Jackson with the elegant prose of Henry James, Piranha to scurfy is further evidence of Ruth Rendell's mastery of any from she puts her hand to.
