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Ruth Rendell: The Vault (USA 2012) From the Publisher: With their own detectives at an impasse, London police call an former Kingsmarkham Chief Inspector Wexford, now retired and living with his wife in London, to advise them on the unsolved murders. Wexford, missing the thrill of a good case, jumps at the chance to sleuth once again. His dogged detective skills and knack for figuring out the criminal mind take him to London neighborhoods, posh and poor, as he follows a complex trail leading back to the orignal murders a decade ago. But just as the case gets hot, a devastating family tragedy pulls Wexford back to Kingsmarkham, and he finds himself transforming from investigator into victim. Masterfully ploted, The Vault is an ingenious sequel to A Sight for Sore Eyes that will satisfy both longtime Wexford fans and new Rendell readers alike. Ruth Rendell: The Vault. An Inspector Wexford Novel. Scribner's, ISBN 9781451624106 (July, 2012), 304 p., $15.00.
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Ruth Rendell: The Vault (UK 2012) From the Publisher: Ruth Rendell: The Vault. An Inspector Wexford Novel. Arrow, ISBN 9780099557357 (May, 2012), 360 p., £7.99.
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Ruth Rendell: The Vault (USA 2011) From the Publisher: With their own detectives at an impasse, London police call an former Kingsmarkham Chief Inspector Wexford, now retired and living with his wife in London, to advise them on the unsolved murders. Wexford, missing the thrill of a good case, jumps at the chance to sleuth once again. His dogged detective skills and knack for figuring out the criminal mind take him to London neighborhoods, posh and poor, as he follows a complex trail leading back to the orignal murders a decade ago. But just as the case gets hot, a devastating family tragedy pulls Wexford back to Kingsmarkham, and he finds himself transforming from investigator into victim. Masterfully ploted, The Vault is an ingenious sequel to A Sight for Sore Eyes that will satisfy both longtime Wexford fans and new Rendell readers alike. Ruth Rendell: The Vault. An Inspector Wexford Novel. Scribner's, ISBN 9781451624083 (September, 2011), 276 p., $26.00.
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Ruth Rendell: The Vault (UK 2011) From the Publisher: Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case. The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None carries identification. But the man's jacket pockets contain a string of pearls, a diamond and a sapphire necklace as well as other jewellery valued in the region of £40,000. It is not a hard decision for Wexford. He is intrigued and excited by the challenge, and, in the early stages, not really anticipating that this new investigative role will bring him into extreme physical danger. Ruth Rendell: The Vault. The New Wexford Novel. Hutchinson, ISBN 9780091937102 (August, 2011), 266 p., £18.99.
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