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<p>With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter&#8217;s smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry&#8211;occupied by a battered corpse&#8211;the investigation takes on a very different hue. <p><b>The Babes in the Wood</b> is Ruth Rendell at her very best, a scintillating, precise and troubling story of seduction and religious fanaticism&#8211;and murder.</p><h3>The New Yorker</h3><p>In the matriarchy of British crime fiction, Rendell is the weird sister; her novels concern themselves with the more darkly enigmatic corners of motivation. Her tastes in this direction have sometimes outstripped her readers&#8217;, and her most recondite tales now appear under the pen name Barbara Vine. Rendell&#8217;s Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries ar

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Author

Ruth Rendell

Publisher

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400049301

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (3,167 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14