Inspectors Wexford and Burden discover a complex and sordid web of blackmail, scandal, and murder during their investigation into the death of one child and the disappearance of another
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"Mystery writing of the highest order . . . durable, complex, and affectingly human.""--The New York Times Book Review "If there were a craft guild for writers, I'd apprentice myself to Ruth Rendell.""--Sue Grafton "Rendell is a master of the form.""--Washington Post Book World "Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.""--Time "From the Trade Paperback edition.
The truth is never far from home.
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