Harm Done: a hugely absorbing and compelling Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth...

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Ruth Rendell

Harm Done

a hugely absorbing and compelling Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth...

Ruth Rendell

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Arrow
02 June 2000

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Wexford

The eighteenth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down.

Readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will love this deliciously tense and suspenseful thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell.

An absolute page-turner you won't be able to stop reading...

'The Wexford books clearly display Rendell's great mastery of storytelling at its best' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Rendell's detective fiction stands almost alone as a chronicle of the dark side of modern life...' -- Independent 'Unputdownable' --
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* A young girl disappears, then another.

A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands...

As a policeman, Chief Inspector Wexford is faced with the effects of violence and prejudice every day.

His daughter, Sylvia, has come to work nearby in a refuge for battered women. Her marriage is not a happy one, although her husband has never raised a hand to her. They are merely incompatible. Other women in Kingsmarkham are not so lucky...

Wexford is soon called upon to investigate two extremely serious crimes which will affect the lives and attitudes of police and innocent villagers alike...

By: Ruth Rendell
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9780099281344
ISBN 10: 0099281341
Series: Wexford
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 02 June 2000
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Harm Done: a hugely absorbing and compelling Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell

Never one to shy away from difficult and topical subject matter, in this, her 18th Inspector Wexford novel, Rendell serves up another gripping slice of Kingsmarkham life in which she deftly weaves together the thorny issues of paedophilia, kidnapping, domestic violence and cop killing. Chief Inspector Wexford, is once more surprised by the complexity of human emotional life both at work as well as at home, where he struggles to come to terms with his feelings for his difficult daughter. Not a bum note sounded, of course, and an atmosphere of quiet but persistent menace. (Kirkus UK)