Simisola

Ruth Rendell

ISBN 10: 0091791618 / ISBN 13: 9780091791612

Published by London: Hutchinson, 1994, London, 1994

About this Item

Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An Inspector Wexford Mystery. 323 pages. Extremities of spine rubbed and one nick in dust-jacket, else a very good copy.

Seller Inventory # 001230

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simisola
• Publisher: London: Hutchinson, 1994, London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091791618
• ISBN 13: 9780091791612
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Simisola

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.