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Book SynopsisThe 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...
Trade Review[Rendell] is unequalled in her ability to create amoral, unprincipled characters, then to make us pity them, until they do something terrible. * Observer *
Rendell's gift for characterisation illuminates every interview with a range of suspects and makes it a pleasure to watch Wexford and burden at work. * Sunday Telegraph *
End In Tears proved once again that no British novelist knows the heart's hungers like Ruth Rendell. -- Christopher Bray * New Statesman *
Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world * Ian Rankin *
Chief Inspector Wexford is Rendell's most enduring and best creation * Daily Telegraph *
