Physical description: 394p. ; 24cm. Summary: Rendell weaves a thrilling and emotional plot around battered women, a released paedophile and the murder of a policeman. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkam are up in arms, even prepared to take the law into their own hands after the disappearance of two young girls around the time when the paedophile is back in the community. Subject: Wexford, Inspector (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Police - Fiction. Modern fiction ; Crime & mystery / Detective / General fiction/ Crime. Genre: Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. Text. Novel.