Seventy-seven-year-old Ruth Rendell is still writing haunting,
suspenseful, riveting and sharply limned novels. In her newest
effort, THE WATER'S LOVELY, she tells a tale of love, murder, lies,
madness and redemption. Two sets of sisters share a renovated house
where a murder took place. Pamela and Beatrix reside in the
upstairs flat, while Ismay and Heather, Beatrix's daughters, are
downstairs. For 13 years everyone except Pamela has lived in the
shadow of a death that has driven Beatrix into madness and haunted
Ismay to distraction.
At 13, Heather was a mysterious y