Ruth Rendell: End In Tears, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Ein Unbekannter wirft einen Betonblock von einer kleinen Strassenbrücke und tötet eine Frau. Die Fahrerin des nachfolgenden Wagens bleibt unverletzt. Doch 18 Monate später ist sie auch sie tot, ermordet auf dem Nachhauseweg. Ein neuer Fall für Inspector Wexford. The twentieth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down.

Crime can reach any town. Murder can touch any family

Beschreibung

The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while...

A few weeks later, George Marshalson lives every father's worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road.

As a man with a strained father-daughter relationship himself, Wexford must struggle to keep his professional life as a detective separate from his personal life as husband and father. Particularly when a second teenage girl is murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - and another family is shattered...

Rezension

"[Rendell] is unequalled in her ability to create amoral, unprincipled characters, then to make us pity them, until they do something terrible." Christopher Bray Observer

Klappentext

The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the UK's best-loved crime writer. A lump of concrete is dropped from a little stone bridge over a lonely road, but it kills the wron