Product Description

This title is about a father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will - that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson's position. Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secrets about the dead teenager's lifestyle. And when a second girl is found murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - Wexford has to put his own family problems aside to tackle what will become of the most disturbing and emotional case of his career.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168743 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Publisher
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the UK's best loved crime writer

From the Inside Flap
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...

It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child?

The relationship between father and daughter has always been uneasy. But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford and his wife, Dora.

One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence and humanity that make Ruth Rendell’s detective stories enthralling, exciting and very touching.

From the Back Cover
A father’s worst nightmare. It’s first light and George Marshalson’s daughter hasn’t returned home. He doesn’t yet know that she never will - that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.

Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson’s position.

Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secrets about the dead teenager’s lifestyle. And when a second girl is found murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - Wexford has to put his own family problems aside to tackle what will become the most disturbing and emotional case of his career.