The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Going Wrong: Part One
Jun 2, 1998 · 60 min
As a teenager, Guy Curran leads a street gang and for three years is the lover of Leonora, whose middle-class background is a world away from his own. Leonora's family disapprove o
Going Wrong: Part Two
Jun 9, 1998 · 60 min
Part two. While attending a party with Celeste, Guy argues with Leonora's brother. He then asks Danny to kill him - but when he learns of an impending marriage, Guy realises he has
Going Wrong: Part Three
Jun 16, 1998 · 60 min
Part three of three. After losing the fight with William, Guy decides to forget Leonora and make it up to Celeste, but a surprise invitation rekindles his old obsession and leads t
Road Rage: Part One
Nov 8, 1998 · 60 min
A Kingsmarkham bypass is planned which will take congestion and air pollution out of the town but put tarmac and heavy traffic through a stretch of much-loved countryside. Feelings
Road Rage: Part Two
Nov 9, 1998 · 60 min
A girl's badly decomposed body is found, and cabdriver Stanley Trotter is suspected of murder.
You Can't Be Too Careful
Dec 24, 1998 · 60 min
A psychological tale of two women who share an apartment, one outgoing and irresponsible, the other shy and neurotic. One day, the chemistry between them leads to sinister events
The Orchard Walls
Dec 31, 1998 · 60 min
n England, in June 1941, sixteen-year-old Jenny is evacuated from war-torn London to her Aunt Ella's house in rural Hampshire. The elderly Mrs Thorn is preoccupied with thoughts of
The Lake of Darkness
May 3, 1999 · 60 min
Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.
The Fallen Curtain
Aug 6, 1999 · 60 min
Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.