The Babes in the Wood (signed by Author)

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0099435446 / ISBN 13: 9780099435440

Published by Arrow, London, 2003

About this Item

Octavo Size. Near Fine condition. Signed by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 401 pages.

Seller Inventory # 297298

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Babes in the Wood (signed by Author)
• Publisher: Arrow, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099435446
• ISBN 13: 9780099435440
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

''A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they''ve all drowned.''

There hadn''t been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. Even where Wexford lives, higher up in Kingsmarkham, the waters had nearly reached the mulberry tree in his once immaculate garden. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of Giles and Sophie Dade, let alone the woman who was keeping them company, Joanna Troy. But Mrs Dade is convinced her children are dead.

As he embarks upon this mysterious investigation, Wexford is forced to question many of his core assumptions about society, even about his own family...

From the Inside Flap

With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter's smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry-occupied by a battered corpse-the investigation takes on a very different hue.
The Babes in the Wood is Ruth Rendell at her very best, a scintillating, precise and troubling story of seduction and religious fanaticism-and murder.