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End in Tears - Ruth Rendell

Description: ISBN 0091796415 / Author: Ruth Rendell / Genre: Fiction / A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a ... more

End in Tears - Ruth Rendell ... 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.

Newest Review: ... grandchild. Inspector Mike Burden was more interesting in his youth when he did occasionally kick over the traces. Now he ... more

... seems to be little more than a foil for Wexford, albeit a rather well-dressed and modish one. This is the twentieth book in the series and I suspect it wouldn’t harm Burden to get a transfer to another force where his abilities could be tested. The books have always been dominated by the middle-class, white male and it’s probably to update a long-running series that two new members of the team have been introduced and this was my only problem with the book. Detective Sergeant Hannah Goldsmith isn’t a character; sh...more

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End in Tears - Ruth Rendell: No tears from me! (899 words)
by SueMagee - written on 09/02/06 (Very useful, 622 readings)
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A block of concrete is dropped from a bridge and hits the car in front of the one driven by Amber Marshalson. A passenger in the car is killed. Some weeks later Amber’s father finds his daughter bludgeoned to death after a night out and it’s obvious to the police that Amber was the real target in the earlier attack. Why would anyone be so determined to kill an eighteen–year-old single mother? Where did Amber get the thousand pounds which she has in her bag and why has she recently been to Frankfurt with an acquaintance who has disappeared? I’ve been a fan of Ruth Rendell’s Chief Inspector Wexford novels since they first appeared more than a quarter of a ...

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