End In Tears

by Ruth Rendell
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The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the UK's best loved crime writer.

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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.

Editorial Reviews

"[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

"Deeply satisfying." - Evening Standard

"End In Tears proved once again that no British novelist knows the heart's hungers like Ruth Rendell." - Christopher Bray, New Statesman

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