We do not resent this withholding of information, because it is part of the novel's satisfying, carefully contrived design. Not showing us everything is the point. The clues to the other four killings have been carefully buried. Only when you read The Keys to the Street for the second time can you sense the pleasure that Rendell must have had in inserting the references to Express Tikka and Pizza delivery service in just such a way that the first-time reader will not even stop to ask: "Why is this being mentioned?"

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While all these people are going about their businesses, murders are committed. Street people are found hung on the stakes on top of walls. Because of various connections that do not seem connected, between Mary and the other characters, she is indeed connected with at least one of the murders.

Roman Ashton: rich man who chose to live on the streets after his wife and kids died in a traffic accident. A killer is murdering the homeless and impales them on the spikes surrounding houses and Regent Park. Roman is one of the homeless who is trying to come to terms with the death of his wife and children. Mary embarks on an affair with Leo the man she gave her bone marrow too. A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read.

Against the will of her boyfriend, Alistair, Mary Jago volunteers to donate bone marrow. He beats her after finding out, so she breaks up with him and goes house-sitting for a rich couple in London. Leslie Bean, an old dog-walker, comes there twice a day to take the shih tzu Gushi out along with five other dogs.

Then there's Hob. A petty criminal addicted to various substances, he is ripe for any job that can use any of his skills, including beating up various marks. Hob does not seem to have any endearing characteristics, which makes reading about him not much fun for me. This was, at the original time of my review, the blurb given for The Keys to the Street here on GoodReads: Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.It is as if the more closely you inspect a locality, the more you will understand of the dark or shabby motives of its denizens. Rendell has noticed everything: unfrequented passageways, obscured plaques, the forgotten tombs in a local churchyard. And noticing all these details is akin to noticing the connections between characters of which they are fatally unaware. The Park is a way of bringing individuals surprisingly, violently into proximity. If it wasn't for the Sliding Doors moment of choosing to direct Batman Begins instead of The Keys to the Street, Nolan's career would have been way different. Nolan wrote the screenplay in 1998, which means that the script predates Insomnia and even the very influential Memento, hinting that dark R-rated thrillers were something Nolan was more interested in than action movies. However, Nolan wrote Inception in 2000 too, even though it wasn't made until the late 2000s and released in 2010. Nevertheless, Nolan's interest in Keys to the Street is a clear indicator that his career could have easily gone in a much different direction. Although some of Nolan's best movies are R-rated movies, they still leaned towards the softer side, often given the MPAA rating for bad language and blood. The Keys to the Street would have been a hard R and might even have had to make cuts to avoid an NC-17 rating. The Keys to the Street is not only about a serial killer who impales his victims on spikes, but the novel also features dark themes such as domestic violence. It's hard to imagine a Christopher Nolan movie so dark, but it would have been such a bold move from the filmmaker and established him as a truly provocative director. Mary is not their sort at all and would under ordinary circumstances be separated from such horror by social barriers stronger than iron bars. But she has performed a bold act, and the circumstances of her life are now extraordinary -- she is receptive to previously undreamed of happiness, and vulnerable to the darkest grief.