- Forfatter: Ruth Rendell
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 384
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Wexford
- EAN: 9780099491149
- Utgivelsesår: 2006
- Bidragsyter: Rendell, Ruth
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...