Synopsis
Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better – after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancée, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage ...
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Mary Leonard falls to her death from scaffolding. It is hardly an accident, but who is to blame?
About the Author
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an acclaimed English crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.
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