'From Doon with Death' is Ruth Rendells first novel.
This edition has a different cover.
From the back of book:

''Love and death,' said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons, love and death. The thing is they both happened in my district.'

The police knew all about Margaret Parson's life, and by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parson had been a 'good' woman. Religious, old-fashioned and ordinary as her home, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage.

But it was not Margaret Parson's life that interested Wexford. It was her death. She had been a predictable, ordinary woman - but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there seemed neither motive or clue.'

RELEASE NOTES:

left it in an armchair at the foodcourt