The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. b> For Woody, anger was cold. Cold and slow. But once it had started it mounted gradually and he could think of nothing else. He knew he couldn t stay alive while those two were alive. Instead of sleeping, he lay awake in the dark and saw those hands. Anita s narrow white hand with the long nails painted pastel pink, the man s brown hand equally shapely, the fingers slightly splayed.' Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their secret place. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, died, grown sick, moved on or disappeared. Work on a new house called Warlock uncovers a grisly secret, buried a lifetime ago, and a weary detective, more preoccupied with current crimes, must
- ISBN:
- 9780091958848
- 9780091958848
- Category:
- Classic crime
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-08-2014
- Publisher:
- Cornerstone
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x153x21mm
- Weight:
- 0.38kg
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