Ruth Rendell is the award-winning author of End in Tears, Harm Done, Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird, among many others. She has won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and was also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Ruth Rendell also wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015.
“Meticulous and coolly malicious. . . . Flat-out brilliant.” —The New York Times Book Review “An unpredictable denouement. . . . Rendell is in top form here.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “Suspense and surprise. . . . Rendell displays her incomparable skills to full effect.” —Orlando Sentinel“Once again Rendell provides a thoughtful mystery, persistent suspense and a welcome return to Kingsmarkham.” —The Daily News
Bestseller Rendell's riveting new novel in her Chief Inspector Wexford series (The Babes in the Wood, etc.) links two disparate worlds-a child-surrogacy ring and the construction trade. A teenage mother, Amber Marshalson, is found dead in the grass outside her home in Kingsmarkham, her skull crushed by a piece of brick. A short time later, Amber's pregnant friend, Megan Bartlow, turns up murdered in a seedy, about-to-be-rehabbed Victorian row house. Suspicions center on a tall man wearing a hooded fleece jacket. Against this sinister backdrop stands Wexford, who's in lion-in-winter mode. He's irked and perplexed by modern life, by the casual way young girls conceive babies, by the sprawl devouring the once-lush Sussex countryside, even by his own fractious family. But he never loses the anger and dedication that propel him to solve crimes and understand evil. While Rendell fans may find this not quite up to the level of her most recent non-Wexford, Thirteen Steps Down (2005), they should be well satisfied. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"Meticulous and coolly malicious. . . . Flat-out brilliant." -The New York Times Book Review "An unpredictable denouement. . . . Rendell is in top form here." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "Suspense and surprise. . . . Rendell displays her incomparable skills to full effect." -Orlando Sentinel"Once again Rendell provides a thoughtful mystery, persistent suspense and a welcome return to Kingsmarkham." -The Daily News
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