Simisola - Hardcover

RENDELL, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091791618 ISBN 13: 9780091791612

Publisher: Hutchinson, 1994

Synopsis

Simisola

About this title

From the Publisher:

In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. "It's probably nothing, " says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists.

But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered, again not Melanie's, but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. As Inspector Wexford's investigation stretches from days into weeks, it becomes his unhappy obligation to counter the hopes of the doctor and his wife. In Wexford's professional opinion, Melanie, like the other young women, has become the victim of a serial killer with a horrifyingly singular objective.

From the Inside Flap:

Simisola, the 16th Inspector Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell, is at once a gripping mystery and an emotionally charged exploration of racism, sexual violence, and the urban ills that are infecting small, traditionally peaceful communities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0091791618
• ISBN 13: 9780091791612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 323