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.
"Rendell's gift for characterisation illuminates every interview with a range of suspects and makes it a continuing pleasure to watch Wexford and Burden at work." Sunday Telegraph "Rendell's psychological insights are so absorbing, it's easy to forget what a superb plotter she is" The Times "No contemporary writer of suspense stories tries to vary the form's boundaries more than Ruth Rendell" Guardian "End in Tears proved once again that no British novelist knows the heart's hungers like Ruth Rendell" Christopher Bray, New Statesman "Ruth Rendell is a phenomenon. [She] has always had a deep insight into the criminal mind and the vicious selfishness of those who believe that their own desires override everything else. She uses it to good effect in End in Tears." The Times
Ruth Rendell, auch unter dem Pseudonym Barbara Vine bekannt, ist mit ihren zahlreichen Romanen eine der ganz großen englischen Autorinnen. Dreimal schon erhielt sie den "Edgar-Allen-Poe-Preis" und zweimal den "Golden Dagger Award" für den besten Kriminalroman des Jahres. 1997 wurde sie mit dem Grand Masters Award der Crime Writers Association of America, dem renommiertesten Krimipreis überhaupt, ausgezeichnet und darüber hinaus von Königin Elizabeth in den Adelsstand erhoben. Ruth Rendell wurde 1930 in einem Londoner Vorort geboren. Sie arbeitete zunächst als Journalistin, bis sie sich 1964 ganz auf den Schriftstellerberuf konzentrierte. Heute lebt sie in einem Haus aus dem 16. Jahrhundert in Suffolk.
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