Heartstones

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Heartstones
First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime/Mystery novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
Publication date
16 April 1987
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages80 pp
ISBN0-06-015757-7
OCLC15519675
823/.914 19
LC ClassPR6068.E63 H4 1987

Heartstones is a novella by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1987. It was also published by Longman in a special educational edition in 1990.

Plot summary

In a college town, two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful, however, for Luke plans to remarry and has chosen Mary. The threat to the girls' world is removed when Mary falls to her death.