Le lac des ténèbres

Martin Urban, à l’instigation d’un ami journaliste, tente sa chance dans les concours de pronostics sur les matches de football. Quelques semaines plus tard, il gagne plus de cent mille livres et décide d’utiliser la moitié de ses gains au profits de gens mal logés. Son geste généreux n’est pas toujours bien compris, surtout lorsque la vie de Martin se trouve étrangement mêlée à celle d’un autre jeune homme beaucoup moins respectable qui, pour gagner, devra tuer. Par l’auteur du Maître de la lande , prix du romans d’Aventures. Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other. In the Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion. Scorpio is metaphysics, putrefaction and death, regeneration, passion, lust and violence, insight and profundity; inheritance, loss, occultism, astrology, borrowing and lending, others' possessions.