- Murder, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mothers and daughters
Once, when Benet was 14, her mother had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since she had seen her mad mother, so when she arrived at the airport, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Ruth Rendell, Isla Blair
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Arrow Books, Chivers Audio Books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781409068990
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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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