Portobello Road in London is famous for its outdoor market and numerous shops. It is also the setting for Rendell’s latest creepy psychological novel and brings a mixture of Londoners violently together. While walking to the shops one day, Eugene Wren finds an envelope full of cash on the street. Instead of calling the police, he decides to post a “Found” sign in the Portobello neighborhood and question callers to see if they were the ones who dropped it. A series of coincidences leads to a number of Londoners caught up in violence, and even death, because of these motions.Rendell is the master of psychological novels that draw people in because of detailed characters and building suspense. She writes with ease about street people, criminals, and the English upper class, lending credibility to her stories. While I usually enjoy all of her books, this was a struggle because of repetitive details about main characters and a disjointed story that doesn’t truly come together until the end. This may have worked better as a short story, something Rendell is also famous for.
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