The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Two women, identical in appearance but totally different in personality, compete for the affections of one man. Which will lose love and perhaps her life?

Newly widowed Liz (Susannah York) rediscovers life and love with a troubled man who has a mysterious past.

Young Nicholas Hawthorne (James D'Arcy) has a crush on a married woman with whom his widowed father has begun a secret affair. Then she winds up murdered.

Young Nicholas Hawthorne (James D'Arcy) has a crush on a married woman with whom his widowed father has begun a secret affair. Then she winds up murdered.

Since childhood, May Thrace (Phoebe Nicholls) has resented her sister June (Christine Kavanagh)--especially when they compete for the same man's affections.

Since childhood, May Thrace (Phoebe Nicholls) has resented her sister June (Christine Kavanagh)--especially when they compete for the same man's affections.

Cecily Branksome (Janet Suzman) opens old wounds by nosing into a long-resolved murder in her childhood hometown - to the growing annoyance of her husband Hugh (Edward Hardwicke).