- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Police
In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 439
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche, Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori, S.A. (Grijalbo), Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780375408342
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Ruth Barbara Rendell is an English crime author (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Rendell>Wikipedia</a>).
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