End in Tears

Notes

End in Tears by Ruth Rendell was the twentieth in her popular Inspector Wexford series. Surprisingly non ever won a major prize, though End in Tears was longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.

The Inspector Wexford novels are lighter in style than her Barbara Vine novels, though that only pitches them as a “Burnt Charcoal” rather than “Pitch Black”.

Publisher’s Synopsis

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

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while…

A few weeks later, George Marshalson lives every father’s worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road.

As a man with a strained father-daughter relationship himself, Wexford must struggle to keep his professional life as a detective separate from his personal life as husband and father. Particularly when a second teenage girl is murdered – a victim unquestionably linked to the first – and another family is shattered…

Read a full review of End in Tears by Ruth Rendell at The Book Bag.