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A three-year-old child returns home, unable to explaiun where she'd been or why she'd been away for three days. Shortly after, a convincted pedophile is released into the community. Then the child of a wealthy executive disappears, and not long after, a suspect in the kidnapping is found stabbed to death. Chief Inspector Wexford looks for conections and finds himself focusing on domestic violence. As he moves closer to discovering the turth, he confronts the discomforting lesson that, when it comes ot the inner life of families, justice is rarely as straightforward as the letter of the law. In this, the eighteenth Wexford tale, Rendell demonstrates anew why she has been dubbed the "Queen of Crime".
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In Harm Done, Rendell has added a remarkable strand of acute social commentary to a book that still functions as an utterly compelling piece of detective fiction. In exploring the controversial subject of pedophilia, she takes the mainstay of her work--the problems of modern life--to a level of passion and commitment that gives the book a truly powerful underpinning.
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Back in the familiar Sussex town of Kingsmarkham, Rendell's dogged sleuth Wexford is investigating the strange abductions of two young girls: Rachel, a bright middle-class student, and Lizzie, a mentally disabled 16-year-old living with her unsympathetic parents on a grim council estate. When both girls return home, apparently unharmed, Wexford is faced with a curious mystery: what really happened to them? As Wexford begins to uncover the disturbing truth, the dark psychological world that Rendell is so adroit at exploring suddenly comes into focus. And her gift for sharp but concise characterization remains untouchable, as in the case of a reluctant witness: '''We don't talk about that sort of thing.' She very nearly but not quite tossed her head." --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk
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- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0736662979
- ISBN 13 9780736662970
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages12
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