Ruth Rendell: The Monster in the Box, Flexibler Einband

Kurzbeschreibung

Als Wexford ein junger Polizist war, wurde er in einen Mordfall verwickelt, der nie aufgeklärt wurde. All die folgenden Jahre stellte er erfolglose Mutmaßungen über den Täter an, bis dieser nach Kingsmarkham zurückkehrt und eine neue Mordserie beginnt.
Ruth Rendell nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Zeitreise, nicht nur um ein Verbrechen aufzuklären, sondern auch um Wexford als jungen Mann und seine Entwicklung zu dem methodischen Ermittler zu zeigen, den man kennt. The twenty-second 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.

The past is a haunted place...

Beschreibung

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

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.

Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their suspicions that her husband was guilty of her violent murder, no one was convicted.

Another woman was strangled shortly afterwards, and every personal and professional instinct told Wexford that the killer was still at large. And that it was Eric Targo. A psychopathic murderer who would kill again...

As the Chief Inspector investigates a new case, Ruth Rendell looks back to the beginning of Wexford's career as a detective, even to his courtship of the woman who would become his wife. The villainous Targo is not the only ghost from Wexford's past who has re-emerged to haunt him in the here and now...

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