The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Season 9
Season 9 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 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
A Dark Blue Perfume
Jan 10, 1996 · 60 min
A middle-aged man returns to his home town and meets the woman he was in love with as a teenager thirty years before. Liz and Mark are soon an item again - but the past comes back
Simisola: Part One
Jan 26, 1996 · 60 min
At first, this mystery seems to be a missing person case: Wexford's doctor asks for help in finding his daughter, Melanie Akande, a recent college graduate who disappeared after go
Simisola: Part Two
Feb 2, 1996 · 60 min
Wexford visits the victim of another attempted murder in hospital, and notices a pink Volkswagen Beetle in the car park. Later, another attempt is made on her life. The car is trac
The Secret House of Death: Part One
Mar 8, 1996 · 60 min
Susan Townsend is a young woman who goes to see her reclusive next-door neighbour and finds him hacked to death. When another body is found on the neighbour's property, Susan gets
The Secret House of Death: Part Two
Mar 15, 1996 · 60 min
Part two of two. Susan Townsend finds herself in danger as details of the double killing begin to emerge.
A Case Of Coincidence: Part One
Mar 22, 1996 · 60 min
The action begins in the year 1954, when a woman's body is found in the fen-land of Norfolk, and a murder investigation gets under way. In the end, Detective Inspectors Masters and
A Case Of Coincidence: Part Two
Mar 29, 1996 · 60 min
Part two of two. Eddie Brannel's protests of innocence urge Masters to go against orders, and as a consequence he learns the true identity of the killer.