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There are only eighteen black people living in Kingsniarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande, who took over the retiring Dr Crocker's practice. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case.
Melanie had only just left university, and, unable to find a job, had been to sign on social security. She disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came.
According to her parents, Melanie was happy at home. She had recendy broken up with her boyfriend, but, until now, there had been no cause to worry about her. And no one liked to voice the suspicion that something dreadfiil might have happened, that Melanie might be dead____
Against a background of rising unemployment and social change, Wexford is involved in a case which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his basic beliefs and prejudices
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There are only eighteen black people living in Kingsniarkham. One is Wexford's new doctor, Raymond Akande, who took over the retiring Dr Crocker's practice. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case.
Melanie had only just left university, and, unable to find a job, had been to sign on social security. She disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came.
According to her parents, Melanie was happy at home. She had recendy broken up with her boyfriend, but, until now, there had been no cause to worry about her. And no one liked to voice the suspicion that something dreadfiil might have happened, that Melanie might be dead____
Against a background of rising unemployment and social change, Wexford is involved in a case which tests not only his powers of deduction, but his basic beliefs and prejudices
'Ruth RendeO is one of the most controlled and subtle prose stylists in contemporary fiction.' Modem Review
'No contemporary writer of suspense stories tries to vary the form's boundaries more than Ruth Rendell.' Guardian
Since her first novel, From Doon with Death, published in 1964, Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel, A Demon in my View, and the Arts Council National Book Awards - genre fiction for Lake of Darkness in 1980.
In 1984 Ruth Rendell won her second Edgar firom the Mystery Writers of America for best short story with The New Girl Friend, and in 1985 received the Silver Dagger for The Tree of Hands.
In 1987, as Barbara Vine, she won the Gold Dagger for A Fatal Inversion.
Ruth Rendell won the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990, and in 1991 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding contribution to the genre.
Her books have been translated into twenty-two languages and are also published to great acclaim in the United States.
Ruth Rendell is married and lives in a sixteenth-century farmhouse in Suffolk. Vissza