From the incomparable, award-winning Ruth Rendell "the grand dame of British crime fiction" (The Gazette)comes her latest psychological thriller.When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons....Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House.From the Hardcover edition.