Heartstones

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Heartstones
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime/Mystery Novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Released 16 April 1987
Media Type Print (Paperback)
Pages 80 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-060-15757-7

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.

[edit] Plot

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, however, when Mary falls to her death.