Dark Corners is a 2015 crime fiction novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, the last she wrote before her death that same year. [1] The novel has no dedication or epigraph. [2] The title of the book is taken from a phrase in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure . [3]
Novelist Carl Martin has fallen on hard times financially, so when he inherits a house after his father's passing he quickly rents the upper floors to the first person he interviews, the strange and intense Dermot McKinnon.
Carl's other inheritance is a collection of alternative medicines his father had amassed, including a diet pill that had been recently linked to a few deaths.
After some unfortunate events Carl is blackmailed by Dermot and begins to spiral into darkness while more information about his tenant is brought to light. [4]
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