A Demon in My View
Ruth Rendell
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p>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 . . .<br><br>In <b>A Demon in My View</b>, 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, <b>A Demon in My View</b> shows the startling results of this chilling alchemy of two very disparate minds--one pathological and the other obsessed with pathology.<br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></br></br></br></br></p>